Maynooth Hillwalking Club

Get yours boots on!

Welcome to Maynooth Hillwalking Club

Maynooth Hillwalking Club, Co. Kildare was established in 1998. The club provides members with an opportunity to meet and participate in walking activities of differing grades. Club walks are held most weekends, usually on a Sunday.

Once per month we hold an Introductory Hike. Non-members are welcome to come on these hikes. You can check the Upcoming Hikes section for details of the next one. We would ask that all visitors...

Download and complete a copy of the Visitors Form (you will not be permitted on the walk without a visitor form.)
Read the Visitor Rules carefully.

Pic of the Month - Oct 2017

Over the rainbow

Somewhere over the rainbow!

Taken from the top of Maulin Mountain in Wickow on a damp September afternoon.

About Us

Maynooth Hillwalking Club was established in 1998 to cater for the hillwalking interests of people in the North Kildare and Dublin areas.

The club walks most Sundays in the Dublin Wicklow mountains with occasional trips and weekends away to other parts of Ireland such as the Mourne Mountains, the Slieve Blooms, the Cooleys to name but a few.

Maynooth Hillwalking club members are members of the Mountaineering Council of Ireland and enjoy such benefits as: A Quarterly magazine - The Irish Mountain Log. Discounts in most outdoor shops and a variety of other related retailers.A personalised membership card (required for retailer discounts), Mountaineering Ireland insurance - mainly Civil Liability cover, includes Personal Accident cover for permanent injuries.

The club attracts a wide age range of walkers with most in the "middle-age" category.

Maynooth Hillwalking club has no child members.