Garryland Wood Trail to Coole Park Co. Galway

Hello Readers,

Today was another beautiful day! We had some sunny days last week, which I thought was the end of our Indian summer, however today was certainly another of those beautiful days. It’s on these days that you drop everything and venture out and let your eyes catch the beautiful colours in nature around us.

We regularly go to a nearby park called Coole Park, it’s a big park , with many trails, but from time to time I get a little bit bored , so today I thought we’d venture to Garryland. Garryland is to the side of Coole Park, but is not as well known, but definately a trail to keep in mind.
Check out the below map, as there are no signposts to Garryland Woods. It’s pity as it’s a lovely walk

I hope you can make sense of the below map!

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The trail is 4.6 Kms long, and that will bring you to the carpark in Coole Park. We didn’t do the whole walk, as didn’t want to have to walk all the way back, so we walked from the car park at Garryland to the fence where Garryland meets Coole Park and then turned back. All by all it took us 1 hour and 20 minutes. The house you see below in Garryland isn’t a cake shop ( if only), it’s a bathouse, ie it houses bats. Check out this link to find out more details about the bats!

The trail is very well signposted, so you won’t get lost! I am enclosing some pictures I took whilst I did the walk! The surface of the trail is excellent for cycling, but the trail is a bit hilly at times, so if you are pushing a buggy, you’ll definately feel it in your legs!