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County Kerry
Lough Leane
Loch Léin
Lough Leane covers 20 km² with 46.1 km of shore in County Kerry, 3.6 km north of Killarney.
Getting to the water
A public road or path on the map comes within 4 m of the shore, along about 1.3 km of it, and there are 3 more stretches like it elsewhere on the shore. That is what the map contains. It is not a statement that the public may walk there, because OpenStreetMap does not record permission, and nobody has checked this lake against its owner.
20 km²
of water
46.1 km
of shore
4
stretches of shore a way reaches
1
viewpoints within 2.5 km
- Area
- 20 km² measured from the mapped outline
- Shore
- 46.1 km around the outline
- Published area
- 19 km2 Wikidata
- Flows out
- Laune
- County
- County Kerry
- In Irish
- Loch Léin
- Public access
- A public way reaches the shoreMeasured from the map, not from a statement of permission
- On the map
- OpenStreetMap record
Where it is
The pin sits from the main access point on the shore, and every distance on this page is measured from that same point. The other pins are the nearest lakes in County Kerry.
Directions in
Parking, viewpoints and stops
Everything here is measured from the main access point on the shore. A viewpoint is a place that looks at the lake, which is not the same as a place on it.
Parking
An unnamed car park is 600 m away, and the walk from it to the shore is 740 m along mapped paths. The map records it as free.
Viewpoints
- An unnamed viewpoint2.4 km
Nearest stops
- Muckross Abbey (not in operation since Covid)620 m
- Muckross House (not in operation since Covid)970 m
- INEC (not in operation since Covid)1.9 km
Getting to Lough Leane
About these directions
Public transport times come from National Transport Authority. Timetables cover 2026-09-18 to 2027-09-19. These are scheduled services; check with the operator for cancellations and changes before travelling.
Walking and driving times are estimates. A town search starts at its centre; choose your location or a point on the map for a more precise starting point. Eircode search is not available.
How journey planning worksDestination, access and nearby stops
Lough Leane is in Killarney, County Kerry. Routes here end at the stretch of shore a public way reaches, which this site measured on the ground. A car park is recorded 740 m from the water, about 9 minutes on foot.
Killarney is the nearest settlement, 3.6 km north of the lake. Arriving in Killarney is not arriving at the water, so the journeys below are worked out to the water and say so when they cannot reach it.
Stops near it
The nearest scheduled stop is Muckross Abbey (15120), 610 m away in a straight line. Use the planner to check walking connections for your journey.
- Muckross Abbey 610 m
bus KY01Scheduled departures from this stop
- Cloghereen Lower 680 m
bus KY01Scheduled departures from this stop
- Muckross House 930 m
bus KY01Scheduled departures from this stop
- Castlelough 1.5 km
bus KY01Scheduled departures from this stop
- Gleneagle Hotel 1.9 km
bus KY03Scheduled departures from this stop
Getting to Killarney covers the journeys into the town itself.
The nearest other lakes
Ordered by distance from the main access point on the shore, in a straight line, which is the same point and the same measure as the figures beside them.
David Purchase, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Questions people ask
Can you walk to Lough Leane?
A public road or path comes within 4 m of the shore, along about 1.3 km of it. That is what the map shows; it is not a statement of permission, which the map does not record.
How big is Lough Leane?
20 km², with 46.1 km of shore, measured from the outline OpenStreetMap holds. Wikidata publishes 19 km2, which is a different measurement rather than a correction of this one.
Where can you park for Lough Leane?
A car park is 600 m away, and the walk from it to the shore is 740 m along mapped paths.
How do you get to Lough Leane without a car?
The nearest stop in the national timetable is Muckross Abbey, 610 m from the main access point on the shore in a straight line, and bus KY01 call there, run by O'Callaghan Coaches. The planner on this page works out the walk from that stop, and where no footway joins it to the water it says so rather than making a number up.
Where this comes from
- The lake itself
- The outline, the name and the identifiers are OpenStreetMap records. Correct it there Figures marked Wikidata come from Q6686132.
- What this site measured
- The area and the shore are worked out from that outline. The stretches of shore a way reaches, the walk in from a car park and every distance on this page are worked out here, on this site’s own graph of the OpenStreetMap ways, last built on 2026-09-20. These are this site’s calculations, not the map’s, and a mistake in them is a mistake here.