Editing Glendalough (section)

===Walking trails===
{{see also|Lists of long-distance trails in the Republic of Ireland#Boarded mountain paths}}
[[File:561 Glendalough, County Wicklow.jpg|thumb|View west, ''White Route'' boardwalk]][[File:Glendalough Miner's Path Wicklow Ireland.jpg|thumb|View east, Miner's Road Walk]]
There are nine [[Trail blazing|way-marked]] trails of varying difficulty around Glendalough that are maintained by the [[Wicklow Mountains National Park]] (and who provide a map of all trails).<ref name="trails" />  Some of the trails stay on mostly flat-ground pathways around the two lakes of Glendalough (''The Miner's Road Walk'', ''Green Road Walk''), others lead up the Poolanass Waterfall area with options beyond into a network of forest paths (e.g. ''Derrybawn Woodland Trail'').<ref name="trails" />  The most notable trails used to take the steep 600–step boarded path (using [[Railroad tie|railway sleeper]]s), but replaced by a zig-zag path in 2020 from the Poolanass Waterfall up to vantage platform of '''The Spinc''' (from the Irish "An Spinc"; meaning "pointed hill"), which overlooks the upper lake and the Glendalough valley below.<ref name="spinc" /><ref name="trails" />

The most noted Spinc trail is the ''White Route'' which follows a further scenic boarded path westwards along the cliffs of the upper lake to the '''Glenealo Valley''' (home to herds of [[red deer]]), and down on stone paths to the Miner's Village, and back along the Miner's Road on the north shore of the upper lake, to finish at the upper lake car park, (off the R757).<ref>{{Cite web |title=R757 - Roader's Digest: The SABRE Wiki |url=https://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/wiki/index.php?title=R757 |website=www.sabre-roads.org.uk}}</ref><ref name="spinc">{{Cite news |last=John G. O'Dwyer |date=17 May 2017 |title=The Spinc Loop: Walk for the Weekend: Haunting beauty of Glendalough |work=[[Irish Times]] |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/travel/walk-for-the-weekend-haunting-beauty-of-glendalough-1.3080076 |access-date=8 March 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last1=Adrian Hendroff |last2=Helen Fairbairn |date=22 October 2018 |title=Ireland's 30 best autumn walks – with a cosy meal or pint at the finish: Number 11 The Spinc |work=[[Irish Independent]] |url=https://www.independent.ie/life/travel/ireland/irelands-30-best-autumn-walks-with-a-cosy-meal-or-pint-at-the-finish-37439356.html |access-date=8 March 2019 |quote=This route is the most popular of nine waymarked walking trails in the Glendalough valley, and rightly so. It climbs through a forest to the top of a high cliff overlooking the Upper Lake, where the exposure and views take your breath away.}}</ref>  As the entire  ''White Route'' loop is on paths (either stone/sand paths or boarded railway sleepers), it can be completed in running shoes and does not require climbing footwear; the entire 9-kilometre loop of the ''White Route'', starting and ending at the upper lake car-park, takes circa 2–3 hours.<ref name="trails">{{Cite web |title=Walking Trails |url=https://www.wicklowmountainsnationalpark.ie/recreation/walking-trails/ |access-date=8 March 2019 |publisher=[[Wicklow Mountains National Park]] |quote=There are nine way-marked walking trails in the valley of Glendalough. The walks vary from a short half-hour stroll to a long four-hour hill walk. Large maps of the walks are displayed outside the National Park Information Office and at the OPW Visitor Centre beside the Monastic City. All the walks start and finish at the National Park Information Office near the Upper Lake. Each trail is signposted with colour-coded arrows. Staff at the Information Office can help you choose a suitable route.}}</ref><ref name="spinc" />

The [[Wicklow Way]], a [[List of long-distance trails in the Republic of Ireland|long distance waymarked walking trail]], also passes through Glendalough.<ref>{{Cite web |title=WICKLOW WAY:Glendalough to Glenmalure |url=http://www.wicklowway.com/trail-description/glendalough-glenmalure.php |access-date=8 March 2019 |publisher=WicklowWay.com |quote=The Wicklow Way crosses the main valley floor, just after the Visitors Centre, via a footbridge over the Glendasan River, and continues up-valley to Poulanass waterfall. Here the trail turns into the Lugduff valley and the start of a 4–5 km uphill trek of 400m to the shoulder of Mullacor (657m), crossing the boggy saddle between it and Lugduff on a boardwalk.}}</ref>

The 30-kilometre medieval pilgrimage tail, [[Saint Kevin's Way]], starts in [[Hollywood, County Wicklow|Hollywood]], and ends in Glendalough.