The Ireland Walking Guide website has been the leading independent resource for Irish recreational walking since 2012. During this time, its development has been privately financed and implemented by dedicated volunteers who possess a wide spectrum of leisure walking experience throughout the whole of Ireland. We have big plans for the future with plenty of new and original content in the pipeline which has never been presented anywhere else. Our small team of experienced volunteers is fully committed to bringing you the very best and most reliable Irish walking website which adequately informs without going to the extreme of spoon-feeding every detail. We believe that it is in the best interests of walkers that we point them in the right direction without actually planning the walks for them, thereby encouraging walkers to use their own judgement and sharpen those essential map-reading skills. While other websites get bogged down by superfluous details in their race to provide every piece of information (plus some more), our approach is more respectful of walkers' real-world needs by reinforcing self-reliance and their ability to carry out proper map-based research.
We don't shy away from the challenges brought by a project of this scale. We embrace them. From the very start, we have sought to develop The Ireland Walking Guide website in a controlled way to maximise the quality and accuracy of its content. For this reason, we decided very early in the project to avoid the crowd-source approach. We regard this as the lazy website builder's get-rich-quick option where quantity of content, speed of setting up, and having others to do all the hard work for free are clearly much more important than taking the time to deliver a high-quality product. We, on the other hand, do not require or request any time, effort or financial input from the Irish walking community to progress our website into the unrivalled resource we're working towards. The website you see today is really just the bare bones of what we are aiming to achieve in the longer term, and we are more than happy to do all the time-consuming technical work behind the scenes at our own expense. Having said that, there are some zero-cost, zero-time ways in which you can support the ongoing development of The Ireland Walking Guide and its growing family of independent Irish information websites. These are all detailed below.
We don't shy away from the challenges brought by a project of this scale. We embrace them. From the very start, we have sought to develop The Ireland Walking Guide website in a controlled way to maximise the quality and accuracy of its content. For this reason, we decided very early in the project to avoid the crowd-source approach. We regard this as the lazy website builder's get-rich-quick option where quantity of content, speed of setting up, and having others to do all the hard work for free are clearly much more important than taking the time to deliver a high-quality product. We, on the other hand, do not require or request any time, effort or financial input from the Irish walking community to progress our website into the unrivalled resource we're working towards. The website you see today is really just the bare bones of what we are aiming to achieve in the longer term, and we are more than happy to do all the time-consuming technical work behind the scenes at our own expense. Having said that, there are some zero-cost, zero-time ways in which you can support the ongoing development of The Ireland Walking Guide and its growing family of independent Irish information websites. These are all detailed below.
Bookmark us
The Ireland Walking Guide has been designed to function as an informative, easy-to-navigate and uncluttered environment which you will want to come back to again and again on any viewing device. By visiting regularly, you can help to boost the website's rankings in search engine results. We have also made the website as easy as possible to access using convenient shortcuts and bookmarks which feature The Ireland Walking Guide's eye-catching logo. These one-touch direct links can be added quickly to any device's home screen and internet browser to give you instant access to the content you're most interested in (e.g. your home county's dedicated page). When you need Irish walking information, you won't have to go searching for it anymore. With the direct links right there on your device, you can now find us at the touch of a button. Find out more via the black "Shortcuts & bookmarks" button below.
Interact on social media
The core component of The Ireland Walking Guide project is the website itself. While we could manage this as a fully self-contained resource, its social media channels allow us to alert followers when new content is added and update them on any other Irish walk-related happenings. Social media is also a useful platform where we can help the walking community to reach a bigger audience. To grab our attention, simply include @irelandwalking in your posts so we can interact accordingly. In general, we might only post an original message of our own on social media once or twice a month. Once weekly, at most. Feel free to share / like / comment if you wish. Doing so will help to let the world know there's a website called The Ireland Walking Guide.
Use our affiliate links
We will never ever ask our website visitors to donate money to support The Ireland Walking Guide's ongoing development or to help cover its running costs. We are not a charity, so it would be completely wrong of us to do that. Our website is a 100% free resource for all to view without having to pay any subscription fees. We cover all the costs of running and maintaining the website ourselves on a voluntary basis. And we do all of this purely for our love of walking in Ireland. The long-term development strategy for The Ireland Walking Guide will continue to be implemented over the coming years and for as long as it takes until our strategic goals are achieved. We currently have no end-date for this, but if you would like to help us speed things along, feel free to do so by shopping and booking online using the dedicated affiliate links we have set up on The Ireland Travel Guide website. Whether you're purchasing a new pair of walking boots, a raincoat, or booking overnight accommodation in Ireland (or anywhere in the world), these links can direct a small commission to us at absolutely no extra cost to you. Any commission earned in this way will be invested back into the website. To access our growing selection of affiliate links, please click on the black buttons below.
Set up a link exchange
If you own a relevant Irish walk-related or tourism website (e.g. a walking club, a guided walks provider, accommodation provider, etc) we have developed The Ireland Walking Guide so that it fits neatly into your "Further information", "Local activities" or "Useful links" (or whatever else you may have chosen to call your website's links section). By including us among your links, you are helping your website visitors find up-to-date walking information provided at a scale you probably don't have the time or people resources to set up and manage on your own. It really makes sense to outsource this useful information to us so we can grow it organically for you in the background. In return, we will provide appropriately-placed link backs to your own website. We currently have processes in place for walking clubs, walking guide services, charities and walker-friendly accommodation providers to arrange no-cost link exchanges with us.
