The Tullig road
South out of the village the ground begins to lift almost at once, and the Tullig road takes you up into it. Tullig is An Tulaigh, from tulach, a hillock, and that is exactly what you are walking up. John O'Donovan wrote it down in the Ordnance Survey namebooks of the 1830s as "Tulaig, a hill", and the spelling has been settled since 1841.
It is about twenty minutes on foot from the village to the townland, and the reward is the turn round: the whole of Tralee Bay opening out behind you, the Maharees running north, and the Slieve Mish and Beenoskee ahead. The lanes are quiet and the walking is on tarmac.
The townland has a harder history than the view suggests. In February 1847 the medical officer at Castlegregory recorded that Michael Forhan of Tullig had died the previous Saturday evening from want of food.
The facts
- Where
- South out of Castlegregory village into Tullig townland
- Going
- Tarmac lanes, climbing steadily
- Time
- About twenty minutes each way to the townland, longer if you carry on
Good to know
These are working lanes with no footpath. Walk facing the traffic, and step in for anything coming.
How we checked. Placename and etymology from the Placenames Database of Ireland. Townland extent from townlands.ie. The Famine record from the 1847 appeal by the medical officer at Castlegregory. Opening hours and prices on this coast change without notice, so ring before you travel. If anything here is wrong, tell us and we will fix it.