We are keen to help promote Irish walking clubs. While other online resources provide an alphabetical or county-based club listings service, we have chosen to list clubs based on where they actually walk. To do this effectively, we have created an interactive map showing all of Ireland's primary walking areas (upland and coastal areas) as clickable polygons. You can view the map on our Irish Walking Clubs page. By clicking any of these upland and coastal area polygons, our website visitors can view the list of clubs who regularly walk in that respective area. If they want to know more about a specific club, a clickable link will direct them to that club's official website.
To get your walking club listed on The Ireland Walking Guide website, please complete and submit our Clubs Joining Form.
To get your walking club listed on The Ireland Walking Guide website, please complete and submit our Clubs Joining Form.
Reasons to get your walking club listed on our website
Getting listed on a walking information website is one of the most effective ways to boost a walking club's profile and attract new members. While other websites offer a very basic listing service for Irish walking clubs, The Ireland Walking Guide offers a much more comprehensive and useful listing format designed to help clubs, their members and potential new members as much as possible. In addition to the basic service provided by other club listing platforms, The Ireland Walking Guide also offers the following unique benefits:
- We list walking clubs on our website for free!
- Our Irish Walking Clubs page is one of the most visited pages on The Ireland Walking Guide website. This is due to the page's high rankings in all related search engine results. Feel free to test this out for yourself. If your club is looking to attract new members, our website is the single best place to be listed.
- We receive hundreds of queries each year from people asking for walking club recommendations. We are only in a position to refer them to the listings on our Irish Walking Clubs page. If your club isn't listed there, it's missing out big time.
- Although we describe it as a "listing", the service we provide to walking clubs is so much more than that. Not only do clubs feature on our popular Irish Walking Clubs page, each also get its very own profile page which includes a "membership catchment area" map and a "walking areas" map.
- Listed walking clubs can be represented by its members in the official All-Ireland Hillwalking Clubs Championship which is delivered through our High Point Ireland project. High Point Ireland is the global founding and All-Ireland governing body for Sport Hillwalking. Yes, Sport Hillwalking is a thing, and it was born right here in Ireland. We fully appreciate that hillwalking sports competitions will not appeal to everyone, but there could be enough interest among your members to give your club a real chance of becoming the official All-Ireland Hillwalking Club Champions. A walking club only needs to be represented by two of its members to qualify as a team in the Championship (the maximum team size is 5) and your club probably wouldn't even have to go out of its way to take part. In fact, it is highly likely that many, if not all, of your scheduled club outings would count in the competition. Visits to any of the 355 Irish Sport Hillwalking Locations between 1st March and 31st October can be converted automatically into points for your club. By getting listed, you are giving the members the option to represent your club. Our competitions are free to enter and are very flexible in terms of dates and places. Competition walks can be formal club outings but they don't have to be. In fact, members can also represent their club by undertaking private walks outside the club's formal programme.
- We are more likely to interact with walking clubs on social media if they are listed on our website and include @irelandwalking in their Irish walk-related posts. We receive a notification each time we get mentioned on social media. We read every post we're mentioned in and will like / share / comment accordingly. You can find us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
- Walking clubs who are listed on The Ireland Walking Guide website are permitted to add their recurring open-invitation walking events to our search-engine-friendly Irish Walking Events listings. Again, our walking events pages are among the top results in all related search engine queries.
