Park in the Glenabo Woods parking area and return to the entrance - the Ballyhooly road. Turn left and proceed until you reach a 'T' junction, called Stack's Cross, with a house facing you known as Judge Kelleher's house.

Along the road to Stack's Cross, one passes over the deer pass from the hills which runs under the road to the Deerpark attached to Castlehyde House which may be seen in the distance.

Castlehyde House, the ancestral home of the first president of Ireland, Dr. Douglas Hyde, and of later years, was in the ownership of an American couple who in the late fifties brought the Boston Symphony Orchestra to perform at a party.

Designed about 1801 by the elder Abraham Hargrave of Cork, the house has long and wide corridors, with a cantilevered staircase of stone, decorated by an elegant balustrade.

The Hyde motto is on the family tomb: De Vivis Nil Nisi Verum De Mortius Nil Nisi Bon - 'Speak only truth of the living and good of the dead.' There is a message in that for all of us.

Turn left at Stack's Cross, and then take a sharp turn right.

Walk up the wooded road, cross a bridge and pass a junction on your right. Keep straight ahead and enter the old Fermoy reservoir and filter beds, which used to supply water to the town of Fermoy. Having walked around the reservoir return to the road and take the first turn left. The reservoir, known as Knockanannig, translates into Hill of the 'Marshy Land'. Cis Geaney, who died in 1997 at 112 years of age, lived in this area. She had a prodigious knowledge of the old Fermoy area.

Along this road there are views across the Blackwater Valley and of the Ballyhoura and the Galty Mountains. Keep right at the first fork and at the 'T' junction turn right, rejoining the Avondhu Way.

Continue down this road until you meet a bridge over Cregg Stream. Leaving the Avondhu Way, turn right just before the bridge and follow the pathway through the woods.

This path parallel's Cregg Stream until you reach the remains of a house which was once the residence of the woodcutter, who supplied timber to Castlehyde House.

It was taken over by the Sweeney family who made their livelihood by cutting timber and hence, the glen is called Sweeney's Glen.

Proceed past the house veering to your right until you meet a pathway and a gate. Pass through the gate, over the bridge and at the 'T' junction turn right.

The track rises up until it meets the main road.

Turn left and within a short space of time arrive at Stack's Cross. Turn right and return via the Ballyhooly/Fermoy road to Glenabo.