It’s all about high-octane thrills, with hiking and biking in the great outdoors of Ballyhoura, on the Limerick-Kerry border. For more information visit www.discoverireland.ie/ballyhoura
Foreign Summers is my name I’m the manager of Valley horror falcher and we support and promote rural tourism here in the valley Harbor region we specialize in outdoor activities and adventure sports mainly at Mountain Bike Park here where we are at the moment with over 100 kilometers of mountain bike trails here
And they’re fastly gaining reputation as the finest mountain bike trails in Europe Trail centers it’s the biggest one that we have on our own I think there’s over 90 kilometers of trails of purpose-built designed by experts for for everyone to ride in all kind of conditions so you’ve
Got a lot of terrain where it’s going to be up and down rocks and Roots a bit of muck as well so on a wet day like today you’ve been guaranteed when you’re down here that the trails are going to be rideable and it’s you’re not going to be
Coming to park all the time so no matter what you’re going to get a great race down here we have a huge varied range of visitors coming into the balihara and the mountain bike trails will have over 40 000 visitors this year alone and we would expect I suppose in the region of
15 or 20 000 Walkers would visit the region on an annual basis as well you get a wide range of people you know different ages different abilities so you’ll have different categories for different writers so you’ll have somebody like an underrated category some races and then you’ll have up to 15
60 year olds going out there as well so that’s the nice thing about it there’s no harsh impacts when you’re running it’s just all cycling all good for them we also promote a lot of walking we have 10 National looped walks and those walks are inspected by the Irish Sports Council
Hi my name is Beno Sullivan and I’m a member of the very horror Bears we have a membership of about 260 people we meet every week 52 weeks of the year we don’t we do an average of at least two walks every Sunday and possibly three but the other country is encompassing
Southeast Limerick nor Cork and West Tipperary It Go Boston Castle Canada to charleville and the mitchelstown all the way down as far as Bellingham County Limerick right so it encompasses a big area it’s an area that we’re trying to to get tourism as I get it get it as a
Tourist destination and that’s why we’re working very hard towards that’s why we have mountain biking and walking and many many other activities in the very high region