Motorcycle Ride Planner · Ireland And Northern Ireland
R572 — Adrigole to Castletownbere
Ireland And Northern Ireland · measured from OpenStreetMap geometry
R572 runs 24.7 miles between Adrigole and Castletownbere. We counted 820 corners along it, which works out at 33.2 a mile — consistently twisty. It runs past the coast, mountain peaks, open water and a river. That puts it in the busiest tenth of every road we have measured in Ireland And Northern Ireland, where the median is 22.2 a mile.
Ridden together with R573 and R591 it makes about 18 more miles of the same kind of road.
Worth stopping for
- 0.2 mihistorickillaconenagh Church (in ruins)
- 0.3 mihistoricSignal Station Flagstaff
- 0.6 mihistoricCastle
- 1.1 mihistoricBell
- 1.1 mihistoricDunboy Castle
- 1.3 milighthouseCastletownbere Lighthouse
- 1.3 mihistoricTimothy C. Harrington
- 1.5 mihistoricKilcaskan Chrush
- 2.2 milighthouseArdnakinna Point Lighthouse
- 2.3 mihistoricDerrycreeveen Signal Tower
Roads near here
- R5736 mi away · 306 corners
- R5919 mi away · 449 corners
- R57110 mi away · 760 corners
- R59111 mi away · 694 corners
- R57511 mi away · 485 corners
- R57212 mi away · 458 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.