Diamond Hill

It's a excellent place for family picnic & trekking! What I liked & impressed me is the kind of excellent infrastructure , that has been created. This place has excellent café, huge parking space, superbly designed trails for trekking!

We really enjoyed this hike. The paths are well maintained and the views and sceneries around conamara are amazing. The weather was not great but we had the right gear and hiking boots are essential. Also as you go up. It gets steep and we had a stiff 50 mph wind as we peaked the top... Loop walk. So you come down a different way to going up... All good really enjoyed this 1.

Diamond Hill (Binn Ghuaire) is a 442m quartzite jewel in Connemara National Park, offering trails for all levels. The Lower Loop (3km) is family-friendly with bog boardwalks, while the Upper Loop (7km) rewards hikers with 360 degree panoramas of the Twelve Bens, Kylemore Abbey, and the Atlantic coast. The name comes from glittering quartz crystals (no real diamonds, but just as dazzling!) Trails were rebuilt in 2005 with €1.4M of helicopter-dropped stones to prevent erosion. While hiking up you might spot Connemara Ponies and Peregrine Falcons along the heather-clad slopes. Tips: Arrive early to avoid crowds, and pack layers, summit winds are fierce year-round! They're no joke, hold onto that camera and phone tightly, mine almost flew away as i could barely hold my camera straight. If you need Maps and Wildlife Guides, you can get them from the Visitor Center down below. To summarise, this is one of the most beautiful places i've ever been to, i would highly recommend this place atleast once.

This is a hike which looks easy, however, it can be really exhausting. You go up like many stone stairs because the path is very well maintained to preserve the precious soil which would erode pretty fast. It is a great experience. The view is stunning at the top. What I also like is that people are advised to go up one way that you don't have to pass each other all the time.

Moderate hike with amazing views, definitely recommending. Easy slow pace up and down in a loop, around 2h to do. Parking a few km away, so easy wall towards the mountain.

Lucky enough to visit Diamond Hill on a beautiful sunny day, views from the hilltop are stunning. Nice visitors centre, provides carparking, cafe and toilets. Picnic benches for people with their own lunches and a little playground for children.

Fantastic trail up over Diamond Hill not too strenuous, the views are amazing well worth the treck.... We did about 7km from start to finish with about 1200ft elevation... Definitely worth a visit if in Connemara the trail has 3 different routes all varying difficulties but on a whole all easily doable

Excellent hike! Took about 40 minutes for us to get to the top which is straight up the whole way on paths & stones. Fantastic views at the top - highly recommended. Actually takes longer on the way down as it goes a slightly longer route.