The Slieve Bloom Mountains offer some of the best walking, hill walking and trekking opportunities in Ireland. They are suitable for most grades of walkers because they are not too high or steep - mountain climbers should look elsewhere!

But the great attraction to the hill walker and leisure walker alike is their unspoiled beauty, and the fact that they are off the tourist track. You could walk for days and hardly meet a person. The villages that surround the Slieve Blooms are similarly quiet and unspoiled.

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