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Dublin: Mountains and Megaliths Trek
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You’d be surprised how quickly Dublin falls away once you’re up in the hills. This 7-hour guided trek takes you out on a local bus through the backroads of the Dublin foothills to a remote mountain village - and from there, the day is all trails, ancient history, and big open views.
Following a meandering mountain path, you’ll visit an ancient burial wedge tomb from the second millennium BC, set quietly in a forest. The route then continues along the Dublin Mountains Way to a popular summit viewpoint, where you can take in panoramic views over Dublin and the bay from a mountain-top rock.
Depending on the season, there’s often a chance to pick wild berries along the ridge - good eaten as you go, or saved for the café later. You continue along the ridge with Dublin to the north and Wicklow stretching away to the south, before reaching a second burial site: an ancient stone circle and the burial place of the man after whom the mountain is named.
After a leisurely wander down through an evergreen forest and along a rural back road, you arrive at a rustic local café and restaurant for a well-earned lunch made from local produce. The return journey takes a different route back - equally worth seeing.
Duration is 7 hours. Transport is by public bus, with the return leg taking a different route. Lunch at a local café is included.
The Dublin Mountains are genuinely wild in a way that catches most people off guard. Five kilometres from the suburbs the landscape changes completely - open bogland, forestry trails, and long ridge walks with almost no one else on them. It’s one of the things locals are quietly proud of and visitors rarely find on their own.
Layers are essential no matter what the weather looks like in the city. Temperature and wind on the ridge can be significantly different from what you felt at the bus stop in town. A waterproof outer layer takes up almost no space and is worth having every single time you go up there.
The wedge tombs along the route date from the second millennium BC, which puts them in the same era as the early phases of Stonehenge. Your guide will give you context for what you’re looking at - these aren’t signposted tourist sites with information boards, they’re just there in the landscape, which makes them feel more real.
Wild berry season runs roughly from late July into September, depending on altitude and how the summer has gone. Bilberries (called fraughans locally) grow along the higher sections of the ridge and are small, dark, and worth tasting if you haven’t come across them before. Ask your guide if you’re not sure what you’re looking at.
The lunch stop at the local café is a genuine highlight. After seven hours on the hills, food made from local produce in a rustic mountain setting is exactly what you want. Leave room for it rather than loading up before you set off.