viewpoint in Leitrim, Ireland
Glencar Waterfall
The waterfall Yeats made famous in verse
Worth the wander
A short path leads to a 15-metre cascade tumbling into wooded Glencar Lake, the setting for W.B. Yeats’s poem “The Stolen Child” and one of the northwest’s easiest big-view walks.
Quick answers
- Cost
- Free
- Time and distance
- 10 min return walk
- Parking
- Free car park at the trailhead on the R284.
Find your way
Glencar Waterfall, Co. Leitrim