"Our mission is to promote the sustainable use and enjoyment
of the local environment in partnership with the people
who live, work and recreate there."
The Wicklow Countryside Access Service is a joint Wicklow Rural Partnership/Wicklow Uplands Council project which commenced in July 2005 with the aim of establishing a network of access routes, on private lands in the Wicklow uplands by means of voluntary agreements with landowners. The project is in the process of developing four access routes at Glenmalure, Lough Dan, Little Sugar Loaf and Bray Head and will continue to negotiate and develop up to twenty routes within its three year timeframe. The Glenmalure access route is being developed in partnership with Mountain Meitheal volunteers.
The project supports and complements the aims of the National Countryside Recreation Strategy and is supported financially by Comhairle na Tuaithe, Wicklow County Council, Wicklow Rural Partnership and Wicklow Uplands Council.
Friends and members of Wicklow Uplands Council during a Wicklow Uplands Council open day in Glenmalure, from left to right: Courtney Cook, Dermot Hand, Joe Walker, John Power, Neilie O'Leary, Joss Lynam and Declan O'Neill.
Shay Walsh from Mountain Meitheal talking about path re-construction carried out by Mountain Meitheal volunteers in Glenmalure.
Wicklow Uplands Council's Board Members Richard More-O'Ferrall and Murtagh O'Keeffe walking the access route in Glenmalure.
Wicklow Uplands Council members and friends walking the access path in Glenmalure.
Members of the Wicklow Council Interim Access Comm., Cllr. Tom Fortune, Cllr. Christopher Fox, Cllr. Andrew Doyle and Des O’ Brien with Bill Murphy & Pat Dunne on a site visit at the Glenmalure access route.
Volunteers of Mountain Meitheal reconstructing a path. Would you like to join the team? Check http://www.pathsavers.org for more details.