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Mountain range in Ireland
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The Slieve Bloom Mountains are a low range of mountains between County Laois and County Offaly. The upper reaches are a nature reserve open heath and blanket bog. The Slieve Bloom Way is a 70-km, long-distance walking trail which usually takes three days to walk. There is also a wide variety of shorter, looped walking trails from each of the trail heads in the Slieve Blooms as well as a variety of mountain biking trails at Kinnitty and Baunreagh.
By road from Dublin follow N7 / M7 towards Portlaoise: reckon an hour, though the first section out of the city hasn't been upgraded to motorway.
Read in the guideYou need wheels to reach some of the trailheads. Public transport. Trains or bus to Portlaoise. A new bus route Route 823 travels 5 times daily between Portlaoise and Birr and stops at Clonaslee Cadamstown and Kinnitty.
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