Muckross Lake
Loch Mhucrois
Muckross Lake covers 2.6 km² with 11.9 km of shore in County Kerry, 5.0 km north of Killarney.
A public road or path on the map comes within 11 m of the shore, along about 1.2 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.
- Area
- 2.6 km² measured from the mapped outline
- Shore
- 11.9 km around the outline
- County
- County Kerry
- In Irish
- Loch Mhucrois
- 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.
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.
An unnamed car park is 620 m away, and the walk from it to the shore is 1.1 km along mapped paths. The map records nothing about a charge.
- An unnamed viewpoint1.2 km
- An unnamed viewpoint1.4 km
- An unnamed viewpoint1.4 km
- An unnamed viewpoint1.5 km
- Muckross House (not in operation since Covid)950 m
- Torc Waterfall (not in operation since Covid)1.2 km
Getting to Muckross Lake
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
Muckross Lake 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 1057 m from the water, about 13 minutes on foot.
The nearest scheduled stop is Muckross House (15119), 930 m away in a straight line. Use the planner to check walking connections for your journey.
- Muckross House 930 m
bus KY01Scheduled departures from this stop
- Torc 1.2 km
bus KY01Scheduled departures from this stop
- Muckross Abbey 2.1 km
bus KY01Scheduled departures from this stop
- Cloghereen Lower 2.2 km
bus KY01Scheduled 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.
Karlunun, CC0 via Wikimedia Commons
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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 Q22084164.
- 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.