This particular area of Walshtown is new to orienteering even though it is on the 1987 map. The map has a good network of tracks and rides together with an amount of feature detail in some parts, in other places it has a large area of open woodland intersected by a single forest road with very sparse ground movement or feature detail.
The map is at 7,500 scale with 5M contours.
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Orienteering Events until July 8th
All of the events below have courses suitable for beginners (except the Rogaine on June 28th). Ask at Registration for advice on the most suitable course.
DATE | VENUE – click on the links below to get map to venue and start times | EVENT TYPE | Organising Club |
Sunday, 22nd June | Lough Hyne Wood, off Skibbereen / Baltimore road, Co. Cork | Family Day | Bishopstown |
Sunday, 22nd June | Dalgan Park, Navan, Co. Meath | ‘Come-and-try-it’ Event | Fingal |
Tuesday, 24th June | Moanbaun Wood, Watergrasshill, Co. Cork | CorkO Summer League | Cork |
Tuesday, 24th June | Ringsend Park, Dublin 4 | ‘Come-and-try-it’ | Great Eastern Navigators |
Saturday, 28th June | Wicklow Mountains, Co. Wicklow | Rogaine Ireland 2014 / (Pre-entry) | Setanta |
Sunday, 29th June | Deerpark Wood, Midleton, Co. Cork | Family Day | Bishopstown |
Tuesday, 1st July | Ballyannon Wood, Midleton, Co. Cork | CorkO Summer League | Cork |
Tuesday, 1st July | Carrickgollogan (Lead Mines), Kilternian, Co. Dublin | ‘Come-and-try-it’ Event | Great Eastern Navigators |
Tuesday, 8th July | Tracton Wood, Minane Bridge, Co. Cork | CorkO Summer League | Cork |
Tuesday, 8th July | Applewood, Swords, Co. Dublin | Come-and-try-it’ Event | Fingal |
Dalgan Park, Co Meath.
Fingal are having a local come and try it event in Dalgan Park, Co Meath. There will be 2 courses available, Long 6.8K and Short, 3.3K, minimal climb on both. All are welcome, starts from 11.00 until about 13.00. SportIdent will be used. Dalgan Park is just south of Navan on the old N3, now the R147
Directions – take the M3 from Dublin, take exit 7 onto the R147. Head North, Dalgan Park is on the left. You can also take the R147 through Dunshaughlin to avoid the toll.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=53.6099&mlon=-6.6328#map=12/53.6099/-6.6328&layers=N
LOUGH HYNE WOOD, off Skibbereen / Baltimore road
Orienteering events until June 22nd
All newcomers are welcome to these events, explain at Registration that you are a beginner and they will advise you about a suitable course.
DATE | VENUE | EVENT TYPE | CLUB |
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Tuesday, 17th June | James’s Fort, Kinsale, Co. Cork | CorkO Summer League | Cork |
Tuesday, 17th June | Hollywood, Co. Wicklow | CNOC Summer Evening Series | Curragh-Naas |
Sunday, 22nd June | Lough Hyne Wood, Cork | Family Day | Bishopstown |
Sunday, 22nd June | Dalgan Park, Navan, Co. Meath | ‘Come-and-try-it’ Event | Fingal |
James’ Fort, Kinsale
The James’ Fort map was updated last year and now complies with the International Specification for Sprint Orienteering Maps (ISSOM). Sprint orienteering is all about rapid decision making and the compact nature of this open area will no doubt have you zigzagging around the historic fort. With the Dock beach as part of the map it provides an ideal spot for a post run cool down with a paddle in the water or a relaxing picnic. So why not come prepared and make the most of the long bright evening.
Hollywood Orienteering and Barbecue
Orienteering start times 18:00 to 19:30. Courses close at 20:30.
Don has planned two courses:
Adventure – 3 km fairly easy course with some sections in the forest. There will be a 2.5 km version of this course suitable for buggies.
Score – get as many controls as possible in 50 minutes. Score 10 points per control, penalty 10 points per minute or part minute over 50 mins. No bonus for getting to all the controls but it should be possible…
We will have our usual near-midsummer barbeque at Tutty’s pub after the orienteering, though unusually the forecast is good!
You can just arrive and register on the evening, but it makes things much easier for the organisers if you pre-register to enter HERE.
Please let us know in advance if you are bringing a group.
Some catching up to do …
A Scandinavian scene: a calm lake, with forest running down to the edge, sunshine, open mountainside strewn with boulders, a cuckoo calling in the distance, clouds of voracious midges in the still evening air … orienteers lining up to start in one of the country’s most prestigious events … Are we sprinting in Sweden? Navigating in Norway? Disporting in Denmark? Actually, no: we’re orienteering in Oughterard at the 2014 Irish 3-Day in Co. Galway.
Two Swedes, Simon Svensson and Josefine Carlsson, took the top spots in the M and W21 Long classes, despite Kevin O’Boyle’s blistering run on Monday, while many of the Irish elites were away in Italy for the World Championship selection races the same weekend.
WOC Team Selected
While we were running around Co. Galway, the aspirants for the Irish World Championships team were at the selection races in Italy. You can see the team selections below – congratulations to you all!
The WOC is in early July, largely in the alpine forests in the mountains about 2 hours north of Venice, but with a sprint race in Venice itself. The 5-Days of Italy is being run in parallel with WOC and has attracted an entry of about 1800. See the WOC web site here.
WOMEN | MEN | |
SPRINT | Niamh O’Boyle
Rosalind Hussey
Olivia Baxter
Reserve – Susan Lambe
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Nick Simonin
Darren Burke
Josh O’Sullivan-Hourihan
Reserve – Colm Moran
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SPRINT RELAY | Best two results from individual
Competition.
Res – Third athlete
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Best two results from individual competition.
Res – Third athlete
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MIDDLE | Niamh O’Boyle
Res – Susan Lambe
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Conor Short
Res – Darren Burke
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LONG | Nick Simonin
Res – Colm Moran
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RELAY | Nick Simonin
Conor Short
Darren Burke
Res – Colm Moran
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Some interesting analysis on World of O into the bunching in the middle distance and classic races in the pre-WOC Italy when the start interval was reduced from 2 minutes to 1.5 in the middle and from 3 minutes to 2 in the long. This is an International O-Federation initiative to reduce the total length of time the competitions take. Read about it here.
Another action-packed weekend of orienteering is being offered by LVO in Co. Down on June 20-22nd, starting with an urban race in Newcastle on Friday evening, then a colour event incorporating the LVO Club Championships at Donard Forest on Saturday, then Pre-O (a.k.a. trail orienteering) and junior training that afternoon, plus the NIOA AGM and a barbecue, all on Saturday. On Sunday there’s a sprint relay at Tollymore.
Camping is available in the beautiful Tollymore Forest Park, in a special field for orienteers, from Thursday, and there’s an NWOC evening event at Drum Manor, Cookstown (admittedly, not close to Tollymore) on Thursday evening. More details here. Enter at Fabian 4 here.
Ones to watch
The 17th Setanta Rogaine is on June 28th/29th, starting at the Shay Elliot memorial between Laragh and Glenmalure. There’s a 24-hour event starting at 2 pm on Saturday and a 6-hour event starting at 8 am on Sunday; both finish at 2 pm on Sunday. Details here.
Summer evening events in Leinster will continue on Tuesday evenings right through to mid/late August, the first fruit of the revitalised Leinster O-Council. See full details on the IOA Fixture list. After then CNOC series, there will be events run by GEN, Fingal, Ajax and 3ROC, at least.
JK Report: falling into the 2better late than never” category, I did a report on JK 2014 at Easter in south Wales but it has vanished into cyberspace so I’ll have to do it again when I have time … unless someone out there will do it for me?
Orienteering Events from June 8th to 10th
There is one event on Sunday in Cork and two events on Tuesday evening, one in Kildare and one in Cork. All events have courses suitable for Beginners. Beginners are always welcome.
VENUE (click below for map to venue) |
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CLUB (click for more details) |
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Sunday, 8th | Doneraile Forest Park | Family Day | Bishopstown |
Tuesday, 10th | Walshtown Wood | CorkO Summer League | Cork |
Tuesday, 10th | Curragh, Co. Kildare | CNOC Summer Evening Series | Curragh-Naas |
Curragh, Co. Kildare
Details and link for pre-entry for next Tuesday’s evening event on the Curragh are now available on the CNOC website http://www.cnoc.ie.
There are 3 courses on offer. The long course is 8km with 29 controls, a map exchange and a ‘spectator loop’. The medium course is 4.5km with 21 controls. These courses have been planned in ‘middle distance’ style with lots of variation in leg length and lots of controls. There is an exciting 2km adventure course around the Curragh trenches, suitable for beginners. Hope to see you there!
DONERAILE WILDLIFE PARK, Doneraile Village
Walshtown Wood (East)
Irish Team – WOC 2014
WOMEN | MEN | |
SPRINT | Niamh O’Boyle
Rosalind Hussey
Olivia Baxter
Res – Susan Lambe
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Nicolas Simonin
Darren Burke
Joshua O’Sullivan-Hourihan
Res – Colm Moran
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SPRINT RELAY | Best two results from individual
Competition.
Res – Third athlete
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Best two results from individual competition.
Res – Third athlete
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MIDDLE | Niamh O’Boyle
Res – Susan Lambe
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Conor Short
Res – Darren Burke
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LONG | Nicholas Simonin
Res – Colm Moran
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RELAY | Nicolas Simonin
Conor Short
Darren Burke
Res – Colm Moran
Running order – TBC
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Veteran Home Internationals
The Veterans Home International (VHI) is an annual competition between teams from England, Ireland (Northern Ireland and Eire), Scotland and Wales. Each team comprises 2 men and 2 women in each age group 40, 45, 50, 55 and 60, and one man and one woman in age groups 35 and 65: 24 athletes per team.
Scoring: Points gained by a nation in the relays are to be added to the points gained by a nation in the 14 individual classes with the highest combined score winning.
Prizes: There are 4 trophies:
The Quaich for the nation that wins the relays.
The Lagan Valley Rosebowl for the nation that wins the individual event.
The Mickelgate Bar Trophy for the overall winning nation.
The “Stonewall Trophy” is presented to either Wales or Ireland, whichever has the greater combined points total.
For details on the Irish Team go to this topic on the Forum-VHI’s, remember to subscribe to the topic to receive updates.