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Árthach Dána – Lough Currane loop from Raheen
05:43
20.9km
230m
Hiking
Hard hike. Very good fitness required. Mostly accessible paths. Sure-footedness required.
Last updated: May 16, 2026
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River View in Ireland
Highlight • River
A beautiful lake with great trails and good views
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6.17 km
View of Lough Currane and surrounding hills
Highlight • Viewpoint
To the north east of Lough Currane, this quiet path can make you feel like you are a million miles from everywhere.
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15.2 km
Charlie Chaplin Statue, Waterville
Highlight • Monument
This statue in Waterville, Ireland, honors Charlie Chaplin, the iconic filmmaker and comedian. Chaplin and his family frequently visited Waterville on vacation, and the town hosts the annual Charlie Chaplin Comedy Film Festival in honor of his legacy.
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15.4 km
Mick O'Dwyer Statue, Waterville
Highlight • Monument
Nice place. Generally very nice on the beach. Perfect for a break when it's not raining.
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15.5 km
Charlie Chaplin Statue, Waterville
Highlight • Monument
Charlie Chaplin and his family first visited Waterville in 1959 after his friend Walt Disney recommended the area as a good place for fly fishing. The Chaplins were so enamoured with Waterville and the surrounding area that they came back year after year for over 10 years and developed close friendships with some of the locals.
This life sized Charlie Chaplin statue where he’s dressed as the Tramp, a character from some of his most famous movies, was sculpted by Alan Ryan Hall and unveiled in 1998. The statue is located just south of Sea Synergy along the waterfront where he looks out over the village he spent so much time in.
theirishroadtrip.com/charlie-chaplin-waterville
This life sized Charlie Chaplin statue where he’s dressed as the Tramp, a character from some of his most famous movies, was sculpted by Alan Ryan Hall and unveiled in 1998. The statue is located just south of Sea Synergy along the waterfront where he looks out over the village he spent so much time in.
theirishroadtrip.com/charlie-chaplin-waterville
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15.6 km
Árthach Dána
Highlight • Monument
The sculpture Árthach Dána (Irish for daring or artful vessel) celebrates the cultural and maritime heritage of Kerry’s Iveragh Peninsula and marks Waterville’s central place in Irish mythology. Like the 11th century poem The Song of Amergin in the Leabhar Gabhála Éireann (Book of Invasions) that inspired it, the sculpture is bold, yet artfully embodies the coastal environment of Ireland’s Celtic seaboard. Its complex form responds to the ancient text (interpretation by Paddy Bushe below), the myth of the Milesian invasion and sun-barge symbolism in European prehistory. Yet, the semi-abstract sundial sculpture is also a monument to all prehistoric seafarers and traders that explored Ireland’s Atlantic seaboard long before the advent of nautical instruments and charting. Wave patterns, the passage of the sun, sea birds and the star constellation of Pleiades or Seven Sisters are all remnants of these age-old skills of seamanship, pilotage and celestial navigation.
As the prow of a ship emerges from the ground like a beached vessel from the depth of history, its planking transforms into the breaking waves of the Atlantic Ocean, the legendary Great Waves of Erin. Its elongated stem resembles the skull and beak of a Northern Gannet that becomes the gnomon of a large sundial - a reference to Little Skellig which is one of the largest gannet colonies in the world! Foremost, however, it is an allegory for the arrival of the Gaelic language on our coast: whether being driven to Europe’s western fringes from an elusive ‘Celtic heartland’ - as it was understood in the 19th/20th centuries - or, more likely, emerging from a pan-European lingua franca. Its stark, aggressive presence is also a metaphor for climate change and the relentless cycles in nature.
arthachdana.eu
As the prow of a ship emerges from the ground like a beached vessel from the depth of history, its planking transforms into the breaking waves of the Atlantic Ocean, the legendary Great Waves of Erin. Its elongated stem resembles the skull and beak of a Northern Gannet that becomes the gnomon of a large sundial - a reference to Little Skellig which is one of the largest gannet colonies in the world! Foremost, however, it is an allegory for the arrival of the Gaelic language on our coast: whether being driven to Europe’s western fringes from an elusive ‘Celtic heartland’ - as it was understood in the 19th/20th centuries - or, more likely, emerging from a pan-European lingua franca. Its stark, aggressive presence is also a metaphor for climate change and the relentless cycles in nature.
arthachdana.eu
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15.7 km
Charlie Chaplin's Walk, Waterville
Highlight • Trail
Waterville (An Coireán, meaning "little cauldron" or "little whirlpool") is a small coastal village located between the Atlantic Ocean and Lough Currane on the scenic and famous Ring of Kerry along the Wild Atlantic Way. Renowned for its game angling and its 18 hole championship golf links, Waterville is also a destination for the hill walker, cyclist, pony trekker, ornithologist, astronomer, archaeologist, fishermen, water sport enthusiast. A walk on the promenade is a nice way to start exploring the village and its surroundings.
visitwaterville.ie
visitwaterville.ie
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19.8 km
Lough Currane
Highlight • Lake
From here you have a beautiful view of the water and the rolling hills on the other side of the shore.
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20.9 km
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Way Types & Surfaces
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16.9 km
1.87 km
838 m
613 m
374 m
311 m
Surfaces
16.5 km
1.87 km
1.59 km
410 m
203 m
150 m
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