Ventry Beach – Slea Head Drive loop from Dingle Distillery

Ventry Beach – Slea Head Drive loop from Dingle Distillery

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Ventry Beach – Slea Head Drive loop from Dingle Distillery

01:44

33.0km

450m

Road cycling

Moderate road ride. Good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: August 8, 2026

Tips

Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted

After 12.9 km for 96 m

Waypoints

Start point

Parking

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6.26 km

Ventry Beach

Highlight • Beach

This vast, crescent-shaped bay offers one of the peninsula's safest and most beautiful sandy beaches. Only the view is somewhat spoiled by the caravans behind the beach. For the cyclist, …

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8.90 km

Slea Head Drive

Highlight • Cycleway

Slea Head Drive unfolds as one of Ireland's most impressive coastal drives, where the road winds along rugged cliffs and open Atlantic vistas. As you cycle westward, the landscape opens …

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10.7 km

Fairy Fort Dingle

Highlight • Historical Site

On this site, there is a Rath, remains of a fortified settlement from the Bronze Age. Ringforts like this were "fairy forts" full of Druid magic and believers in fairies …

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12.9 km

Fahan Beehive Huts and Coastal Cliffs View

Highlight • Historical Site

Directly along the spectacular Slea Head Drive lie these unique 'clocháin' or beehive huts. These conical stone structures, built without cement using the ancient dry-stone method, once housed early Christian …

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13.0 km

View of the Cliffs on the Dingle Peninsula

Highlight • Viewpoint

The landscape is of rare beauty: black cliffs crowned with bright green meadows, checkered fields rising up the hill, and one of the country's most surprising archaeological sites. The place …

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15.8 km

Slea Head Crucifixion Scene

Highlight • Monument

Marked by a cross, as many high or exposed locations, the point offers a grand panorama. The steep cliffs are impressive. To the south, on a clear day, you can …

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17.1 km

View of the Blasket Islands from Slea Head

Highlight • Viewpoint

In the western most point of the Dingle Peninsula is Slea Head. Dunmore Head, the promontory to the west of here, is the most westerly point in Ireland. The views of the Blasket Islands are simply stunning.

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27.6 km

View of Ventry Beach and Mount Eagle

Highlight • Viewpoint

This vast, crescent-shaped bay offers one of the safest and most beautiful sandy beaches on the peninsula. Only the view is somewhat spoiled by the caravans behind the beach. For …

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33.0 km

End point

Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

32.5 km

469 m

114 m

Surfaces

28.0 km