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Woodland Loop

Woodland Loop is a waymarked loop in County Wicklow, 1.2 km along the line OpenStreetMap draws, marked with grey arrow on white circle.

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1.2 km

as this site, measured along the drawn line has it

1.2 km

measured on the map

Distance: Nobody publishes one that this site has found1.2 km measured along the line the map draws
Shape: A loop, back to where it started
Waymarked: Grey arrow on white circleAs the map records. Colour is never the only thing this page uses to tell routes apart.
Network: Local waymarked route
Managed by: Birdwatch Ireland
County: County Wicklow
On the map: OpenStreetMap relation/18001573

The route will draw when you reach it.

Woodland 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
Woodland Loop	Grey arrow on white circle	None	1.2 km	Loop
North Walk	Blue arrow on white circle	1.5 km	1.3 km	Loop
Summer Walk	Yellow arrow on white circle	None	3.3 km	One way

Getting to Woodland 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

Woodland Loop is in Newcastle, County Wicklow. Routes here end at the start of the trail.

The nearest settlement this site covers is Newcastle, 1.3 km 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 Sea Road (4260), 1.2 km away in a straight line. Use the planner to check walking connections for your journey.

Sea Road 1.2 km
buses L2 and X2
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Newcastle 1.4 km
bus L2
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Newcastle Middle 1.9 km
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Gorse Hill 2.0 km
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Newcastle Lower 2.0 km
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Getting to Newcastle covers the journeys into the town itself.

Questions people ask

How long is Woodland Loop?

Measured along the line OpenStreetMap draws, 1.2 km. No published figure has been found for it.

Where does Woodland Loop start?

The map does not name a start. The line begins 1.3 km from Newcastle, which is where the map is drawn from rather than a waymarked trailhead.

Is this the same as the other walks from here?

No. 3 waymarked routes start within eight hundred metres of the same point: Woodland Loop at 1.2 km, North Walk at 1.3 km, Summer Walk at 3.3 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/18001573, 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.