🥾 Walking route
Cosan Cuas na nEighe
County Kerry
- 📏 2.7 km · 1.7 mi
- ⛰ +81 m
- ⏱ 45 min
- 🐕 On lead
Walk stats
- Distance2.7 km · 1.7 mi
- Elevation+81 m
- Duration45 min
- DifficultyEasy
- Route typeCircular
- TerrainGrassy cliff paths, short field sections and pebble shore
- Best seasonLate spring to early autumn
- DogsDogs welcome on a lead near cliffs and livestock
About this walk
Cosan Cuas na nEighe is a short circular walk on the County Kerry coast, beginning and ending at Cloichear. In under an hour it takes in a fine stretch of cliff and shore, with just 81 metres of ascent to earn the views.
From the trailhead the path drops towards Tráigh Chloichir, the pebbly strand below Cloichear, before rising through the small fields of Gort na mBó. The route then traces the cliff edge past Faill Buí, the yellow-tinged headland, and reaches the sea inlet of Cuas na Nae, a natural cleft in the rock where the Atlantic surges in.
Nearby you can extend your visit to Faill na Saor and Bun an tSrutha, where a small stream meets the sea, or wander the old ground of Seantalamh above the shore. It is a compact loop, but one that packs in beach, cliff, pasture and a real sense of the Kerry seaboard.
Route map
Route line drawn from OpenStreetMap footpath data. Numbered markers are waypoints on the route; amber star markers are points of interest a short detour away.
Waypoints along the route
5 waypoints along the way
- 1
Cloichear (start and finish)
- Start / finish
Start and finish of this circular route.
- 2
Tráigh Chloichir
- 3
Gort na mBó
- 4
Faill Buí
- 5
Cuas na Nae
Worth a short detour
Points of interest just off the route, look for the amber markers on the map.
Faill na Saor
~455 m off the route
Bun an tSrutha
~181 m off the route
Cloichear
~250 m off the route
Seantalamh
~463 m off the route
Route & waypoint data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).