Rock climbing in Donegal

Donegal offers an amazing variety of climbing from long mountain routes on
perfect granite to smaller crags and sea cliffs scattered throughout the
county. Combined with the wild beauty of the mountains the Atlantic coastline
and you have the material for endless rewarding climbing days.

The Mountaineering Ireland guidebook, ‹Rock Climbing in Donegal›, is a select
guide to the entire County of Donegal. It documents over one thousand
outstanding rock climbs from Muckross Head in the south to Malin Head at
Ireland’s most northerly point on the Inishowen Peninsula.

The guidebook comprises 25 very different rock climbing areas. Each area has
descriptive text and an area map to ensure the ease of finding the location.
Throughout the book over 250 colour photographs have been used to help
describe every cliff, crag, sea stack and mountain listed. This ensures that
96% of the routes are shown on full colour photo topos taken from the best
angle and position in optimum light to allow first time visitors to find their
chosen routes.

The author Iain Millar has spent the past nine years exploring Donegal making
the first ascents of over 400 rock climbs and 50 previously unclimbed sea
stacks. It is with this in-depth knowledge of rural Donegal that he has
selected and documented the climbs within this guidebook. What this guidebook
will provide the first time visitor and the more seasoned Donegal climber
alike is a lifetime, and indeed several lifetimes of outstanding world class
rock climbing in some of the most beautiful, remote and unspoilt places in
Ireland.