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Kerry Head loop from Ballyheigue

Kerry Head loop from Ballyheigue

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Kerry Head loop from Ballyheigue

01:55

41.8km

300m

Road cycling

Easy road ride. Great for any fitness level. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: June 6, 2024

Waypoints

Start point

Parking

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402 m

View South Over Ballyheigue Beach

Highlight • Viewpoint

Between Ballyheigue and Kerry Head, the view south over the sweeping sands of Ballyheigue Beach is gorgeous. It stretches for 3km and overlooks Tralee Bay. It is a popular spot for swimming, surfing and other watersports.

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7.31 km

View of Tralee Bay from Kerry Head

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Cycle around the promontory of Kerry Head and you will find far reaching views across Tralee Bay to the south and Shannon Estuary to the north. A loop of the Kery Head Cycleway from Ballyheige is 17.5km and a lovely ride to either do on its on or as part of a longer ride.

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41.5 km

Roger Casement Memorial

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Sir Roger Casement, was a diplomat and Irish nationalist. Sir Roger Casement, CMG, between 1911 and 1916, was a diplomat and Irish nationalist. He worked for the British Foreign Office as a diplomat, becoming known as a humanitarian activist, and later as a poet and Easter Rising leader.Described as the "father of twentieth-century human rights investigations", he was honoured in 1905 for the Casement Report on the Congo and knighted in 1911 for his important investigations of human rights abuses in the rubber industry in Peru.

During World War I, he made efforts to gain German military aid for the 1916 Easter Rising that sought to gain Irish independence. Sick with malaria, he came ashore in Banna Strand from a German Submarine, as part of an attempt to land German arms to assist with the but was captured in a nearby fort.
He wasconvicted and executed for high treason. He was stripped of his knighthood and other honours. Before the trial, the British government circulated excerpts said to be from his private journals, known as the Black Diaries, which detailed homosexual activities.

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41.8 km

End point

Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

41.6 km

138 m

Surfaces

29.8 km

11.8 km

138 m

Elevation

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Highest point (140 m)

Lowest point (0 m)

Weather

Monday 10 August

26°C

12°C

11 %

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Kerry Head loop from Ballyheigue

View South Over Ballyheigue Beach

View of Tralee Bay from Kerry Head

Roger Casement Memorial

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