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Glencolmcille - Tower Loop

Glencolmcille - Tower Loop is a waymarked loop in County Donegal, 8 km along the line OpenStreetMap draws.

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10 km

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8 km

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Distance: 10 km as the map’s own distance tag has it8 km measured along the line the map draws
Shape: A loop, back to where it started
Network: Local waymarked route
County: County Donegal
On the map: OpenStreetMap relation/14778184

The route will draw when you reach it.

Glencolmcille - Tower Loop in dark green, with the other routes from the same place behind it in grey. The line is continuous as the map draws it.

The other routes from the same place

These start within eight hundred metres of the same point and share parts of their length. The arrows are what tell them apart on the ground, so each is named with its colour here rather than shown only in it.

Route	Waymark	Published	Measured	Shape
Glencolmcille - Tower Loop	Not recorded	10 km	8 km	Loop
Glencolmcille - Drum Loop	Not recorded	13 km	8.5 km	Loop

Getting to Glencolmcille - Tower Loop

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 works

Destination, access and nearby stops

Glencolmcille - Tower Loop is in Cashel, County Donegal. Routes here end at the start of the trail.

The nearest settlement this site covers is Cashel, 260 m from where the line begins, in a straight line. The journeys below are worked out to the start of the walk itself, so the last stretch is measured rather than left to you.

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Stops near it

The nearest scheduled stop is Gleann Cholm Cille (140471), 470 m away in a straight line. Use the planner to check walking connections for your journey.

Gleann Cholm Cille 470 m
buses 293 and 490
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Getting to Cashel covers the journeys into the town itself.

Questions people ask

How long is Glencolmcille - Tower Loop?

The map records 10 km. Measured along the line it draws, it comes to 8 km. This site has not found an operator's own figure.

Where does Glencolmcille - Tower Loop start?

The map does not name a start. The line begins 260 m from Cashel, which is where the map is drawn from rather than a waymarked trailhead.

Is this the same as the other walks from here?

No. 2 waymarked routes start within eight hundred metres of the same point: Glencolmcille - Tower Loop at 8 km, Glencolmcille - Drum Loop at 8.5 km. They share parts of their length and are told apart by the arrows, so the one you follow is the one whose colour you keep to.

Is it open today?

This page holds no closure notice for it, which is not the same as knowing it is open. Cliff paths and forest routes close after storms and during works, and those notices are published by the operator rather than on the map. The link above goes to whoever manages it.

Where this comes from

The route: The line, the name, the colour and the waymark are the OpenStreetMap relation relation/14778184, and can be corrected there.
Worked out here: The measured distance, whether the line is continuous, which settlement is nearest the start and every distance on this page are this site’s own calculations from that relation, last built on 2026-09-20. No climb is measured here, and no time is estimated: a walking time appears only where an operator publishes one.