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This definitive guide explains everything you need to know as a walker before setting out on your County High Point quests. Each county-focused chapter contains a brief county profile and detailed walking route descriptions accompanied by easy-to-read maps.

With quiet roads, striking scenery and brimming with 5,000 years of heritage, north Leinster is a marvellous region to discover by bike. These thirty routes, exploring coast, lake, river and canal routes, vary in distance and difficulty and are graded to suit all abilities.

Suitable for business and leisure, this guide contains practical information you need for an ideal trip. Presented in a handy compact format, it also contains a separate fold-out map Dublin. There are four main sections within the guide Essential Dublin, Dublin by Area, Where to Stay and Need to Know.

Starting with Dingle town, Felicity Hayes-McCoy takes us on an insiders' tour, interviewing locals ranging from farmers, postmasters and boatmen to museum curators, radio presenters and sean-nos singers. Also offers practical information and advice as well as cultural insights that will give any visitor a deeper understanding of this special place.

Here are twenty-nine imaginative and varied walks specially designed to appeal to children, all within County Dublin. Explore some of the county's finest landscapes and historical attractions or enjoy the delights of the city and its suburbs.

The spectacular Dingle Peninsula in southwest Ireland extends westward into the Atlantic from Tralee to Slea Head. This guide takes you off the beaten track to explore this stunning landscape in a variety of walking routes ranging from short hikes to full-day treks.

The Beara and Sheep's Head Peninsulas lie in the southwest of Ireland, pointed fingers of land wedged between the Kenmare River, Bantry Bay and Dunmanus Bay. The wild and largely untamed nature of the landscape immediately casts its magical spell. There is no better way to explore and experience this stunning landscape than on foot.

These three peninsulas dominate the landscape of southwest Ireland. This guide describes exhilarating walks in each peninsula, with photographs and specially drawn maps as well as material on the fauna, flora, folklore, history, geology and place-names of the area. It will be the most comprehensive guide to the area to be published for some time.

The northwest of Ireland provides a diversity of walks, from the wild, untamed landscape of Donegal, with its mountains, sea-cliffs and glens, to the gentler hills, green valleys and picturesque escarpments of Sligo and Leitrim. Quality photographs and maps will inspire one to get the walking boots on and start exploring this majestic landscape.

West Cork, from Kinsale to the Beara Peninsula and from the Atlantic to the Lee Valley, is remarkable for the many ways people make West Cork work for them. Alannah Hopkin discovers a vibrant community of diverse people with compelling stories to tell.

The Little Book of Waterford

Ireland's Ancient East is a new campaign that offers visitors a view of a different Ireland. This first guide to this brand new venture showcases 100 sites across the region.