Walks 13.2 to 13.6 are best approached in groups - the walk leader being versed in mountain walking procedures.

Begin at the Galty Castle carpark as in 13.1, taking the anti-clockwise direction (blue waymarkers), down over the bridge and continue until you meet the blue waymarker at the farm gate by the bridge.

Turn right before the bridge, through the gate, and walk up the track which parallels the Attychraan River. This is a beautiful walk overlooking the river, glen and woods. Here is an entry point to the Galtees, passing on your right Knockeenatoung.

At the end of this track, cross the stream by the stepping stones, and turn right until you come to a fence.

Over the fence is the confluence of a number of streams from Galtymore, Knockeenatoung and Knocknagalty. These streams form a series of little waterfalls, a lovely area for rest or a picnic.

From this point, walk upwards due west across Knocknagalty, at the far side of which you will see the remains of a farmstead down in the valley. This is the valley of Glounreagh in the Galtees, named after the river which flows through it. The house is surrounded by little walls and fields and is in a really beautiful area under Bengower.

Bill Power of Mitchelstown has recorded that on Christmas Eve, 1877, a lone journalist together with the parish priest of Ballyporeen, trekked up the mountain to visit the cabins of tenants of the Buckley Estate.

The priest was Rev. Dr. Delany and the journalist was William O'Brien from Mallow, who was sent there by the 'Freeman's Journal'. Over the next week, the two men journeyed into some of the remotest areas of the Galtees to discover what kind of conditions had caused these peaceful and hardworking people to enter into open dispute with their landlord, Nathaniel Buckley, a Lancashire cotton millionaire. He had bought 21,000 acres of the mountain, formerly part of the Kingston estate at Mitchelstown, with the purpose of making profit. Within a year, he had increased the rents for most of its 520 tenants by between 200 and 500 per cent.

Later in the week, O'Brien visited almost every cabin in the townlands of Carrigeen and Knocknagalty.

'My head almost swims with the tales of misery, poverty, squalor and despair poured into my ears from fifty different sources.

The cabins with decaying thatch degenerated here and there into hovels swarming with hungry-looking children. The fields were grazed rarely by dwarf cattle shivering on the sheltered side of great stone fences. The crops were potato and short oaten straw.

Very carefully wend your way down to the house. It is quite steep and one should take great care; perhaps moving sideways rather than moving directly down hill. At the top of Knocknagalty, for those who are not very agile, you will see to the left a very old track which you may follow south, until it takes a 'U' turn north to bring you directly up to the ruined house.

This is much safer and easier and makes the walk more enjoyable. At the house, take time to look at the old stonework and little fields next to the Glounreagh river.

Cross the river and walk down the bank until you reach the woods. Follow the path south, keep right at the first fork, left at the next and continue through the gate with the farm on the left (2km). Keep left at the fork immediately after the gate and continue up the road with an interesting view across the valley towards the site of Gaty Castle. At the 'T' junction turn left, then take a 'U' right (200m) turn and follow the road back to the carpark.