Visitor Center: Free Exhibition, Café & Tóchar Daithí Bán Trail Enjoy a leisurely walk along a 2km looped trail at Wild Nephin Ballycroy National Park Visitor
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***Please note camping and campfires are not permitted in the National Park/Dark Sky Park at this time.*** ***This includes staying overnight with camper vans etc.
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This is one of the last intact active blanket bog systems in Ireland and Western Europe and is an important scientific and scenic feature of
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“Indeed the Nephinbeg range of mountains is I think the very loneliest place in this country”
– Robert Lloyd Praeger (1937) The Way That I Went
Ballycroy National Park is Ireland’s sixth National Park and located on the Western seaboard in northwest Mayo. It comprises of 11,000 hectares of Atlantic blanket bog and mountainous terrain, covering a vast uninhabited and unspoilt wilderness dominated by the Nephin Beg mountain range.
To the west of the mountains is the Owenduff bog. This is one of the last intact active blanket bog systems in Ireland and Western Europe and is an important scientific and scenic feature of the National Park. Ballycroy National Park is part of the Natura 2000 Network, which protects rare and important habitats and species under the EU Habitats and Birds Directive.
The Bangor Trail traverses National Park lands skirting the foot of the Nephin Beg Mountains. This ancient route twists and winds between the mountains and bogs, from Bangor southwards to Newport. Stretching 40km, once a route used by herders to
Due to Storm Francis, please note that Wild Nephin National Park/Mayo Dark Sky Park, including all trails (i.e. Letterkeen Loops & Claggan Mountain Coastal Trail) & the Ballycroy Visitor Centre will be closed from 6pm this evening (Monday, 24th August
Due to Storm Ellen, please note that Wild Nephin National Park/Mayo Dark Sky Park, including all trails (i.e. Letterkeen Loops & Claggan Mountain Coastal Trail) & the Ballycroy Visitor Centre will be closed from 6pm this evening (Wednesday, 19th August
Wild Nephin National Park remains open to the public at this time. There are some changes we would like to inform you of. Please think ahead & be aware of the following:
The Visitor Centre is staffed 7 days a week from 10am to 5.30pm for advice, enquiries and toilet facilities if required.
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