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Beara Breifne Way

Beara Breifne Way

Tracing the Footsteps of O'Sullivan Beare

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    • Section Three Trails
      • Suck Valley Way
      • Lung / Lough Gara Way
      • Miner’s Way & Historical Trail
      • Leitrim Way
      • Cavan Way
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Miner’s Way & Historical Trail

Miner's Way & Historical Trail

The Miner’s Way and Historical Trail is a 118 km long circular route

The trail consists of three looped routes that travel through neighbouring parts of Roscommon, Leitrim and Sligo.

The route follows paths used by miners working in the old Arigna coal mines, making a circuit via Keadue, Ballyfarnon and the Corrie Mountains. The Beara-Breifne Way links with the Miner’s Way and Historical Trail on the Curlew Mountains, crossing over the Bricklieve Mountains and passing the Carrowkeel Megalithic Tombs making a circuit of Lough Key via Keadue before crossing the Shannon River.

The trail was developed to encourage tourism in the area in the wake of the closure of the Arigna mines in 1990. The route was originally conceived by a local priest, Father Sean Tynan, and built with funding from the European Regional Development Fund. The trail was opened by broadcaster Donncha Ó Dúlaing in July 2000.

Miner’s Way Routes

Parts of the Miner’s’ Way and Historical Trail form part of the Beara-Breifne Way, a walking and cycling route under development, intended to run from the Beara Peninsula, County Cork to Breifne, County Leitrim following the line of Donal Cam O’Sullivan Beare’s march in the adtermath of the Seige of dunboy 1602

The Beara- Breifne way links with the Miners’ Way and Historical Trail west of Monasteraden and follows the trail to Leitrim village via Highwood and Knockvicar.

Collect Your Stamps

As you walk the Miner’s Way section of the Beara Breifne Way, collect your passport stamps in each of the following locations. Click to find out more about each of the locations you’ll visit on your route.

BBW Ballinafad Stamp
BBW Ballyfarnon Stamp
BBW Castlebaldwin Stamp
BBW Keadue Stamp
BBW Knockvicar Stamp

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Contact the Miner’s Way & Historical Trail

To find out more about the route, accommodation or local services, contact the Miner’s Way via our contact form, or at:

Una Bhan Tourism Co-operative Society
Main Street
Boyle
Co. Roscommon

Tel: +353 (0)71 9663033
unabhan@indigo.ie
http://www.unabhan.net”

How to Walk the Beara-Breifne Way

You can walk the whole of O’Sullivan Beare’s route from West Cork to Leitrim

We’ve created a unique walking passport you can use to catalogue your progress over days, months or even years. Each community has chosen a stamp to represent its character, and as you collect your passport stamps, you’ll get to meet some of the people behind the walk’s creation.

 


 

How to use the passport

You can order your  Beara-Breifne Way passport online and plan your route using our handy maps.

Stamp locations are listed on on this website for each walk and walk section. When you complete your  walk, call in to its passport point, and we’ll stamp your passport for you.

At the end of your journey, you can claim the final stamp which proves you walked the entire Beara-Breifne Way!

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