- Slieve Foye Loop: moderately challenging looped route ascending Louth’s highest peak, Slieve Foye (also known as Carlingford Mountain). It combines forestry roads, grassy tracks, and mountain paths, delivering breathtaking panoramic views over Carlingford Lough, the Cooley Peninsula, and the distant Mourne Mountains.
- Táin Way: renowned circular long-distance trail steeped in Irish mythology from the epic Táin Bó Cúailnge. Traversing the rugged Cooley Mountains, it offers dramatic landscapes of hills, glens, and lough shores with sweeping vistas across multiple counties and ancient historical sites.
- Carlingford to Omeath Greenway: gentle, flat pathway along the scenic shores of Carlingford Lough, following a historic old railway line. This accessible trail provides tranquil waterside walking with stunning views of the lough, the Mourne Mountains, and opportunities to spot wildlife such as seals and birds.
- Annaloughan Loop: rewarding forested loop in the Cooley Peninsula, winding through Scots pine and deciduous woods with clearings revealing expansive views over Dundalk Bay and the surrounding mountains. It features hidden glens and a peaceful off-road escape into varied natural terrain.
- Clogherhead Cliff Walk: short but invigorating coastal route along dramatic sea cliffs, leading to a sandy beach. It treats walkers to spectacular eastward views of the Irish Sea, distant islands, lighthouses, and the silhouettes of the Mourne and Cooley Mountains on the horizon.
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