Barna Woods — Attraction in Galway

A natural magical little gem of an ancient woods. Galway's nicest woods. Great way to chillax and reconnect with nature on half day trip from the city. It has one main path that just takes 10 / 15 mins to reach far side.It discects the woods (leading from main woods car park entrance straight through to Cappagh park where theres a children's play ground and loads of playing fields and pathed walks). Theres several other unguided paths to explore with proper sturdy footwear. You can enter Barna Woods 3 or 4 different ways.1.Coming from the city, main entrance is from a small Barna woods car park on rhs 100metres after texaco service station on Barna road. 2. park at Rusheen bay carpark located immediately on lhs after Texaco ( nice short pathed costal walk here to enjoy first if you like and picnic tables to have a picnic as your reward at the end of your tromp through Barna woods). Walk to Barna woods by turning left from Rusheen bay carpark exit along a footpath til you see the Barna woods entrance on opposite side. 3. For a longer walk, park( or take bus) to Cappagh Park on Cappagh Rd. Walk to pedestrian entrance to Barna woods on far left hand side of Cappagh park. To extend further you can track through Barna woods to a pedestrian exit adjacent to Barna Church, exit there and cross the road (carefully as its busy) to the entrance road to Silver Strand beach. (Its a lovely safe swimmers beach so bring a rucksack with your swimmers n towel n picnic if you fancy a dip n snack before you return home the same way on foot) 4. park at either Barna church car park or at Silver strand and walk to the hole in the wall on the corner of Barna Woods city located on left as you approach from Barna church in the direction of the city. Dog and family friendly. Bring dogie pooh bags. Bin provided at both ends of the main path. To grab s Coffee or snacks for a picnic. Nearest shops at Texaco or if approaching from Cappagh rd/Cappagh park then you could google Cappagh stores on...

Lot of work done in the 60's 70's needs a further lift again with all the recent heavy storm damage a trees planting plan to protect what's still there from wind from the west. Plans are useless but Planning is invaluable. The location of the pedestrian crossing is like the one beside Tesco and the accross the corib beside the cathedral wrong and all need to knocked be moved. the planning ticker making these monumental mistakes also. Another example on the Clybaun Road. Do it right or don't do it but leaving the mess to be cleaned up by future is objectionable. Not to mention the inherited danger of such lazy poor poor quality design. A footpath on both sides of every road in the city is the responsibility of city Council. Look at Maunsell Road, people of Galway expect...

A small wood that abuts Cappagh Park. There is a large carpark at the Cappagh park entrance bit it seemed closed when I visited March 2018 due to works. I parked in the small carpark at the Barns Wood entrance, surprisingly full for a Wednesday morning. There were no maps at the entrance and the trails not marked bit reasonably self explanatory. A lovely, if small, wood great for a quick stop for a nature fix or short walk. I did a circuit of the Wood and the Park which lasted approx 30-40mins walk. I don't think I could have made it a longer walk unless I did another lap. The Wood has dirt trails which look like it gets muddy when wet but the Park...