Distance: 9k Ascent: 10m Estimated Time: 2hrs-2hrs 30mins Grade: Easy Trailhead: Lough Boora Parklands Terrain: Bog roads and sandy tracks Lough Boora Parklands was until recently something of an ...

In the mid-20th century, Lough Boora was a 100-acre lake surrounded by bog, one of dozens such lakes in Co Offaly alone, a winking eye among thousands sprinkled across the great raised bogs of the ...