Motorcycle Ride Planner · Ireland And Northern Ireland
R497 — Charleville to Limerick
Ireland And Northern Ireland · measured from OpenStreetMap geometry
R497 runs 25 miles between Charleville and Limerick. We counted 639 corners along it, which works out at 25.6 a mile — consistently twisty. It runs past mountain peaks, forest, open water and a river. That is busier than two thirds of the roads we have measured in Ireland And Northern Ireland, where the median is 22.2 a mile.
Ridden together with R497 and R497 it makes about 18 more miles of the same kind of road.
Worth stopping for
- 0.1 miattractionIt's a long way to Tipperery
- 2.5 miviewpointThe Rock
- 2.6 mihistoricOld Castle
Roads near here
- R4971 mi away · 219 corners
- R4973 mi away · 333 corners
- R6634 mi away · 201 corners
- R6635 mi away · 306 corners
- R5157 mi away · 156 corners
- R51511 mi away · 281 corners
How we measured it
Corner counts come from the road's own geometry in OpenStreetMap, not from ratings or votes. Every bend above a threshold of curvature is counted once, so two roads can be compared directly. Nothing here is crowdsourced and nobody paid to appear.