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Garretstown Wood

Date Sunday, 16/02/2025
Venue Garretstown Wood
Address Ballinspittle, Co.Cork
Club Website CORKO
Start Times 11:00 - 13:00
Signposted From Ballinspittle
Contact corko@orienteering.ie
Grid reference W 587 458
Latitude/Longitude 51.6632826854588, -8.59697044969266
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Pricing

Adults: €8 / personChildren: €5 / childStudent: €5 / studentUnwaged: €5 / personOAP: €5 / personFamily Discount: €20 (Maximum of 2 Adults and no more than 5 family members / family)

Notes

The next CorkO event will take place next Sunday February 16th at Garretstown Wood, Ballinspittle, Co. Cork

Garretstown woods is a nice mix of marked walking trails, firebreak roads, more obscure trails and a good variety in fun and exciting Orienteering terrain. The wood covers an area of 200 hectares and is steeped in history. The northern section of the wood is on elevated ground overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. On the southern end of the wood there is a spring well known as the 'The Spa Bathing Bath' or 'Chalybeate Waters'. This bath has a bee hive stone roof to protect its waters from rain. These special waters were discovered in 1750 and many generations have been cured by bathing in them. Remnants of an old deer wall can also be found within the forest,


The map of this area has been recently updated and is well worth a visit. The fine sandy beach close by at Garretstown is an excellent location for a post run recovery dip. 

COURSE INFO

Long 6km, 15 Controls

Medium 4.6km, 11 Controls

Short 2.5km, 6 Controls (all on trails)

Please note there will also be a fun course for small children to sample their first Orienteering experience.


DIRECTIONS AND PARKING

From Cork city head to Kinsale and continue through the town and follow the R600 signed Ballinspittle. Continue through the village of Ballinspittle and take the R604 towards Garretstown. Parking will be approximately 300m after the R600/R604 junction at Courcey Rovers GAA club and Community Centre grounds which is just across the road from the eastern entrance to Garretstown woods. Signage will be in place. Eircode P17FD79


Why not join us for a Wild Atlantic Way adventure in Garretstown on Sunday.

Difficulty rating 4/10 Paths through generally runnable forest
PreEntry

Enter online on orienteering.ie

Entries open on 22/01/2025 @ 15:39 PM
Entries End 14/02/2025 @ 18:00 PM

Results from previous events held near here

03/07/2007 Garrettstown Wood
20/10/2007 Garrettstown Wood
01/07/2008 Garrettstown Wood
27/09/2015 Ballinspittle Wood
29/05/2016 Ballinspittle Wood
06/09/2016 Garretstown Wood
06/06/2017 Garretstown Wood
06/08/2017 Ballinspittle Wood
12/08/2018 Ballinspittle Wood
18/08/2019 Ballinspittle Wood
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