Starting at the Grand Hotel [5], walk by the river up Barnane, past the Rowing Club [7]. Across the river on your right, is the former site of John Anderson's 'Fermoy House'. Next to this, is a wide sweeping lea field on the bank of the river known as the King's Inches. This was the site where the British Kings inspected their Munster troops.

Continue over the stile at the end of Barnane and carry on to the Inch fields.

Here is also an area on the river bank, known as the strand, where many Fermoy people learned to swim. The river at this point sweeps left, past what is known as the 'rock'.

As you follow the river through the trees, you will see the river meandering its way down from Castlehyde. The walk continues through a fenced path parallel to the Glenabo Glen until you reach Glenabo Bridge.

The Barnane River Walk follows the Avondhu Waymarker. At the exit at Glenabo Bridge, follow the yellow waymarkers symbol, cross the road and move up through the wood, known as Glenabo Wood.

Continue up the hill through the wood until you meet a road. Still following the waymarkers, turn left past a number of farms for 3 km; on your left is the hill which includes a telecommunication mast and the Cross of Corrin.

Ignore the waymarker which indicates a right turn into the woods, and continue straight ahead along a narrow track until you meet a cross-roads, known as Geaney's Cross.

Turn left and walk along the road until you meet the signpost for Fermoy Golf Club. Follow the road leaving the entrance of the Golf Club on your left and walk downhill. Take the next left until you meet a parking area at the entrance of Corrin Wood on your left.

Turn left and follow the route, which is marked at intervals with the Stations of the Cross, to the large cross at the summit of Corrin Hill. Here, there are magnificent views across the Blackwater Valley, north to the Galtees, west to the Nagles, south to Watergrasshill and Cork City, and east to the Knockmealdown Mountains.

The cross at Corrin was erected in 1932 by the Magnier family to celebrate the Eucharistic Congress held in Dublin.

Return to the cross-roads at the 13th Station of the Cross and turn right, and down through the woods to the hairpin bend.

Take the track on the left until you reach a pathway. Pause here and observe the stunning view of the town of Fermoy.

Follow the stony pathway down to Glenabo, turn right at the end of the hill and follow the road back to the town until you reach the traffic lights. Turn left and walk down the hill to the square.

As an alternative loop, the foregoing walk may be shortened by beginning at the Glenabo Woods parking area, and following the route described above.