Where to run in Maynooth ? 10k Carton loop

If you want to have a nice weekend run in Maynooth here is an option for you. I use this route a lot, but would only recommend it at daytimes as the bit running along the canal can be dangerous with limited sight. I'll begin descriptions from the parking lot at Lidl, but you basically can hop in anywhere along the route, as it is a loop.

1. Cross the road and run alongside Straffan on your left hand until you make it to the T junction
2. Turn right, leave SPAR on your left hand site and cross bond bridge passing maynooth train station to your right until you come to the gates of the old campus
3. Turnleft into the campus and then keep right in the campus passing the church tower
4. Still keep right crossing the bridge to Maynnoth University Library
5. Cross the road into the new campus and follow the one way circle
6. Leave the one way circle first chance you can go left and make it back to Maynooth Center 
7. Take the left after the traffic lights at manormills and run to the end
8. Turn right at the girls school and make your way to Carton
9. Stay on the avenue and run straight not leaving the road until you reach the first road
10. Cross the road
11. Keep running until the next big road at the end of the golf course pass through the gate
12. Cross the road
13. At the canal turn right and stay with the canal until the next bridge
14. Run up the ramp and turn left leaving the Glenroyal  behand you
15. run back to Lidl Parking lot

Enjoy!

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