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 — corner after corner with no let-up. It runs past the coast, mountain peaks, 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 26.9 a mile.
Ridden together with R573 and R591 it makes about 29 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
- R59111 mi away · 694 corners
- N7021 mi away · 799 corners
- R63723 mi away · 401 corners
- Wild Atlantic Way - Ring of Kerry & Conor Pass27 mi away · 340 corners
- R58430 mi away · 664 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.