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A great advantage of way-marked trails is that they offer easy access to open mountainside, writes TONY DOHERTY. The section of the Duhallow Way along Caherbarnagh is a case in point.

APART FROM their intrinsic value, one of the great advantages of long-distance way-marked walks is that they allow access to open mountainside without the hassle or, in the case of the ageing hill walker, the indignity of struggling over barbed-wire fences. Such is the case with that section of the Duhallow (Blackwater) Way that runs along the lower slopes of Caherbarnagh (682m) and its outlying peaks. These mountains, which form part of the Derrynasaggart range, lie just west of Millstreet in mid-Cork.