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Ards Forest Park - Heritage trail

Official walking route
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Difficulty
Moderate
Distance
5.2 km
Walking time
2 hours
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What is recorded here

Sport Ireland records Ards Forest Park - Heritage trail as a loop route, 5.2 km, graded moderate, with a listed walking time of 2 hours in County Donegal. This page keeps the official start point; the route's local history and the places passed along the way still need to be added.

From Sport Ireland Outdoors 196

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.visitgalway.ie
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  • Maker not stated on source page, www.sunnysarasotahomes.com
  • Ross, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Vadim Manuylov, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
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