Next Munster League Event - 27th March Crohane Lake

There will be a Munster League event on Crohane Lake on Sunday.

This area was used for the 1998 World Cup Qualification Races (the only WC race to ever be held in Ireland). It is typical West Cork/Kerry terrain, open mountain with intricate contour detail. The yellow and orange courses (beginner courses) will not visit the mountain on this occasion, but will instead use the Ross and Chru na Lua map (1:7500), which is a forest with a network of forest roads and tracks. The yellow course is all on forest roads, with the orange course using some rougher tracks.

Parking for the event will be at Ross an Chru na Lua, on the Poulgorm Bridge to Kilgarvan Road, the R569. From Cork turn left (from Killarney/Glenflesk turn right) at Poulgorm Bride on the N22, signposted for Kenmare. The event will also be signed from this junction. There is a parking area on the right-hand side of the road on a bend, so approach with caution, approximately 6km after turning off the N22. An overflow car-park is located on the other side of the road. Please take care when crossing this road which despite being a Regional Road has a 100kph speed limit.

Start 1 & Finish 1 (at parking area)
Yellow, 2.6km. 80m climb
Orange, 3.7km, 130m climb

Start 2 & Finish 2 (c1.5km from parking)
Brown, 8.1km, 370m climb
Blue, 5.5km, 280m climb
Green, 3.8km, 190m climb
Light Green, 3km, 125m climb

The route from parking to Start 2 is along tracks with the route being taped at decision points. The start and finish are adjacent to each other. Clothing can be left at the finish with bags being provided.

Registration will be from 10.45 to 12.45, with starts from 11.00 to 13.00.
Courses Close at 14.45.

Important Note – Clocks change on March 27th, they go forward by 1 hour.

This is not an event to miss, chances to orienteer on this type ofterrain do not come along too often!

Next Munster League Event Sunday

Sunday 7th November will see a return to the Mahon Falls area of the Comeragh mountains. Courses will be relatively short to allow for the terrain. Whistles and cagoules may be required if weather is bad. Earliest start time will be 11 a.m

Brown course: 7.1 km, 200 metres climb
Blue course 6.1km, 160 metres
Green course 5.0km, 140 metres
Light Green course 4.3 km, 130 metres
Red/Orange course 3.2km, 100 metres
Yellow course 2.6.km, 70 metres

There will be a river crossing on the longer courses and a small climb along the road to the start for all courses to reduce the amount of climb on the courses overall.

The current Munster League table after 7 events can be seen here. Remember it is the best 5 out of 9 to score, with 2 events remaining.

Anybody bringing a group should indicate to WATO beforehand to ensure enough maps are provided.

Munster League 3: WATO

Below is the message posted to the Irish orienteering e-groups by Andrew:

Waterford Orienteers will host the next round of the Munster League on Sunday14th March.The venue is Goirtin wood, Kilsheelan. This area was last mapped/surveyed in 1991 so major changes have occured since then. Club members have spent a lot of time since Christmas drawing on to OCAD and updating this map. The wood is the usual mix of runnable and not so runnable coniferous forest with the addition of some excellent swathes of deciduous trees on the northern side. These are marked with orange and white for Open with scattered trees. There areplenty of forestry roads which have been cut up a little by last weekends rally. There are many new extraction rides which may not be marked on the map.

Course lengths and climb will be posted tomorrow. I was ready to have maps printed when I took a final visit to the area yesterday. Coillte are currently felling on the southern edge which affected the Brown course. I am changing the courses to avoid this area.

Full Sport Ident will of course be used.

Start times between 10.30 and 1.

The event will be signposted from Kilsheelan bridge from the main Carrick to Clonmel road. Please notify me in advance if you are planning to bring a group.

Until the next message,

Andrew Cox

Watowaterfordorienteers.blogspot.com

Munster League Event Sunday

Hi all

Just a reminder that the first round of the Munster League will be held on Sunday, 24th January in Blue Pool, Muckross. It was postponed last weekend due to weather conditions. The event will be signposted from the N71 Killarney/Kenmare Road, grid reference V979 867.

The other Munster League events are:
ML 2: 21st Feb Clonmore North (CorkO)
ML 3: 14th March Goirtin Wood (WatO)
ML 4: Inch Sanddunes (KerryO)