From the entrance to the Devil’s Glen forest drive in along the forest track to reach a car park after about 2km. There are 2 walks starting at the information board. From here the loop trails take you deep into this beautiful forest to finish back at the car park where you started.  Along the routes you will find some unusual and interesting ‘Sculptures in Woodland’.

Waterfall Walk

The Devil’s Glen boasts a dramatic landscape that was fashioned at the end of the Ice Age when the melt waters of the ice sheet created the valley. The resultant gorge affords a swift decent for the Vartry River as it makes its way from the Vartry Reservoir to nearby Ashford village. The site hosts a mixture of broad leaf and conifer forest with fine stands of beech, Spanish chestnut and ash. The steep rock face of the gorge has been colonised by various species of plant life: lichens, mosses and the polypody fern.

Grade: Moderate
Distance: 5.2km
Estimated Time: 2hrs
Type: Loop

Seamus Heaney Walk

The Seamus Heaney Walk is named in honour of the poet and Nobel Prize winner this is a lovely walk through the high forest.

Grade: Moderate
Distance: 4.2km
Estimated Time: 2hrs
Type: Loop