Is Wild Camping Legal in Ireland?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- In an ideal world we would all have the right to roam freely but unfortunately this is not the case. I am very grateful to be granted access to venture up into the hills and across the countryside. We are very lucky to have such beautiful places around Ireland to explore and it is extremely important that we look after it. I hope that this video has helped you. Thank you for watching and I will see you in the next one,
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Cheers, Jason 🙌
Great that someone addressed wild camping with a sensible clear explanation, good stuff
Cheers Terry 👍
Amazing. We are heading to Ireland next week and most info seems like camping isn't prohibited but this video shines some great light on the current state of things. Thank you sir!
No worries, I hope that enjoy your time in Ireland 🍀
This is absolutely one of the most peaceful, relaxing, and soothing videos I have seen. Your creativity and spirit is so moving and touching for many of us. I find such inspiration in this because for a few years already I have struggled with my mental health and really slowly I am getting back to things that I used to be able to do with ease. You inspire me a lot and I want to thank you for it. Sending love and wishing you the best on your journey :)
Cheers, hopefully you will get back to what you like to do best. Take care 👍
Well done- great to hear accurate information for a change, there are several wild camping TH-cam accounts out there who have no clue what they are talking about regarding access and wild camping. Keep up the good work.
Thanks a mill, a lot of people may not realise how lucky we are to have the access that we have. The last thing that I wanted to do was mislead anyone, so it was important that I got this right. Thanks again 🍀
This should have at least a billion views, absolutely epic rundown mate. Top drawer, top class, top man.
Good advice, well put.
Just on the subject of gates, it's important they are left *as you find them*. They most likely have been left open by the landowner to facilitate livestock movement and closing an open gate can cause problems.
Cheers Niall.. That would be grand unless it was open because the person who went up the trail a half hour ahead of you left it open accidentally.. So then by closing it you would be helping the landowner. I reckon if the land owner wanted it left open he would tie it up or leave a sign to say to leave the gate open. I'm sure a lot of people would make a judgement call themselves but it's a fair point that you made and one to keep in mind
@@RamblingOn it's in the LNT Ireland guidelines and what I was taught as part of the old Country Code before it had a fancy name 😆 Not criticising BTW, your video is full of very good points and info 👍
@@nialloutdoors ah no that's fair enough, I see the logic in it. I'd imagine if a landowner left a gate open then it would be properly opened and secured so I would be happy to leave it but if its swinging open or left ajar then I'd close it
If you own land and you are renting pitches in 🇮🇪 you have to be registered with Failte Ireland, and to do that, you need to pass the regulations, such as lighting and washing/ toilet facilities. It's a lot of red tape.
Thank you for this information! Super helpful
@OraVerse no worries 🍀
Good topic Jason as sadly its becoming a problem for us to legally camp. Thanks for the info, have a good week 👍😊
You too Lee, all the best 👍🙂
Hope to walk Ireland some day...this year my sights are on the GR11 and the Pyrenees . I walked the length of Switzerland and did the GR5 in 2015 with a Snugpak. It was ultra stealth. I even camped in a parkette in Nice for 3 days undetected!. Thx for the great info
Those are some serious walks, fair play to you. I love my Snugpak for keeping things simple and out of sight. If you come to Ireland make sure to have some decent waterproofs 😄
We have a lot of public lands here in the states but sadly a huge problem with people treating them like one large dump. Abandoned RV's, campers, cars, boats, piles of trash etc.. then the roads get gated or blocked off. It's a real bummer
It's an issue everywhere really. There are people who don't have a love for the outdoors and just trash it when they are out. Then access to those areas is restricted or removed for everyone. It takes a whole lot of good people to out weigh the bad unfortunately
@@RamblingOn I've started taking extra trash bags with me when I go camping, but there's only so much I can do to clean up when people shoot old tvs and glass bottles.. dirty buggers
Thank You soo much for getting straight to the point
No worries, I hope it was helpful 👍
Excellent Jason. Great info. Was thinking I'd see you in the back of a squad car at the end 🤣 There is far too much rubbish on the hill unfortunately. Great advice and good tips about hooking a dry bag on the outside of your bag for rubbish. Cheers for the info. 🙌
😄 that would have been a good way to end it alright.. The bag is handy because I don't like putting dirty litter in with my gear 😄 I'm too domesticated for that carry on
Thanks for this information, it certainly help to clarify the situation
Glad it was helpful 🍀
Well done Jason - your video is a great resource for anyone that has queries on what's the low down for wild camping in Ireland! Long may the 'tolerated' perspective continue 🤞 What an impact it would be to the wellbeing of those of us that wild camp regularly if we were to lose that tolerance. So important that people practice respect like you said. Lovely shots of your tent and hammock throughout the video 😎
It was a very requested video so hopefully it helps shed some light on the situation. I would be absolutely gutted if access was removed and wild camping made illegal by law. It wouldn't take much for that to happen so it's extremely important for us to look after what we have
Jason
You used a great word many times there, "Respect"
Like all areas of life wild camping and walking off the beaten track, require respecting the land, and the natural world that lives in it.
No point in bothering if you are going to trash the place, that isn't wild camping, that's just vandalism.
Thanks Jason to you and a few other great TH-cam guys and girls, I have truly been bitten by the bug. I never thought at 52 I'd become a wild camper, but I am obsessed by it now... my poor long suffering wife 😢
Keep up the great work 👍
Well said George, it's all very straight forward at the end of the day.
Delighted to hear that you have caught the bug.. 😄 your poor wife, you'll soon have the nack at justifying why you just have to have that other tent, stove or backpack.. It's a fine art 😅
Good sir, this is great information well presented. Thank you. I'm going to bring an ultralight kit when I visit next week.
Enjoy your visit, I hope that the weather is kind to you 🍀
@@RamblingOn Thank you. Probably silly to try wild camping in your lovely country in the next couple of weeks, you think? Pretty wet, you think?
@cibablea the rain is never too far away but September is usually a good month weather wise. Whatever happens, embrace it and enjoy it 🙌
Great video and info. There is a field I used to pitch up in a short walk up from the Glendalough visitor center, the owner lived opposite it in a small house and the views in the morning were amazing (stunning) :D. Not sure its still possible but no harm in asking if someone is around. Wish we had a right to roam law here like Sctoland but thats a pretty divisive conversation on this island.
😄 I'll have to put 'stunning' on a t shirt or something. I'd say it would be grand once you had the owners permission. I would love if we had the right to roam in this country but I can't see it happening in my lifetime. Unfortunately what I can see is wild camping being made illegal by law and access removed if those areas are not being respected or looked after. I love wild camping and I really don't take it for granted. If things go pear shaped I'll be moving to Scotland.. Just have to get that by the wife 😄
@@RamblingOn Get the merch shop up and running :D Wouldnt know where to start (or stop) about land and wilderness laws/management. less patchwork and more trees would be a good start. LNT and nature studies could easily be taught in school like in the scandi countries.
great & insightful video 👍
Thanks for the info, enjoyed the video 👍
Cheers, great to hear that 👍
😊thanks for the information 😊
No problem 🍀
Very informative thank you 👍
The few ruin it for the many! During the C years ... On a trip too Glenmalure ... The camping I seen from the roadside was terrible! Large open fires, rubbish everywhere it was like a tented village.
Oh yeah back then it was really bad, people out for a session and because they had tents they were labelled as wild campers. That led to the rest of us getting a bad name. I'm happy that settled down when things opened up again
Its a beautiful and peaceful place for camping enjoy and have a nice day
You too, take care 👍
Is there any laws restricting hunting of hares and feral goats?
I'm not familiar with the laws around hunting to be honest. That is something you will have to look in to
Great vid very useful info
Tx for the video. I have checked the info about Killarney national park where is a notice that camping is not allowed... what that means? Setting the tent, staying overnight...?
As far as I can tell they don't allow any temporary shelters or camping. You might have to email them but as far as I can tell you wouldn't have permission to set a tent up even if it was just for the day.. Again you would have to email them to ask if that is what you wanted to do
@@RamblingOn tx. I won't risk. I am going to monitoring the night light polution there and I usually take the tent to protect me while waiting the gear.
Good advice 👍
Thanks Ingrid 👍
Great video. 👍
Thanks 👍
Top class Jason!! 💚
Cheers John 👍
do you know if wild camping on the aran islands would be allowed? greetings from canada
As far as I am aware, it is the same as the mainland. It may not be strictly legal but it is tolerated. Respect the landowners, leave no trace and you'll be grand 🍀
Well said lad, and it's that simple, should not be hard to follow a few simple rules 🙄
Thanks Niall 👍
I don’t understand why you have over 3.5k subscribers but you videos only receive a small amount of views compared? I subscribe because I like you channel and your content...... why subscribe to a channel and then not watch it? beats me anyways keep them coming Jason atb Darren
I have seen channels with very few subs get millions of views and vice versa.. I have no idea how it works but I'm happy out 😄 Cheers for sticking with me, plenty more camps and all that jazz to come 👍
"Use a gas stove and don't light any fires"
Fires are better if responsibly managed. Gas stoves cost money, have massive amounts of embodied energy, depend on environmentally destructive industrial processes, and fail to make use of locally available fuel for cooking, lighting and heating,
Beginners generally speaking would be better to use a gas stove as it is a safer and a more controlled way to cook or heat water. If you haven't had much experience with campfires even the smallest oversight can lead to extensive wild fires in some cases. I would never advise anyone to light a fire in the mountainous areas of Ireland.. This is just my opinion and I realise there are many people out there who have years of experience of lighting and controlling camp fires responsibly but there are far more who don't and that is when the smallest oversight can cause a lot of damage in some cases.
@@RamblingOn the biggest risk is in conifer forests after spells of dry weather, where the duff layer can ignite from a campfire or roots can smoulder underground and then ignite material aboveground when they resurface. In Ireland that typically means plantations of Sitka spruce, Norway spruce, Douglas fir, balsam fir, grand fir, larch, lodgepole pine, Corsican pine and so on, although we do have Scots pine trees growing natively as well.
Beginners are always going to be a liability but they have to learn how to light a fire responsibly at some point, so they should learn proper fire management only in broadleaved woodlands of say oak, ash, beech, sycamore, holly, hazel etc. initially (as even a beginner will struggle to set a damp broadleaved woodland on fire, even if they forget to extinguish their campfire and fail to remove the leaf mould surrounding the fire), and then when they're competent they can graduate to the more advanced level of having campfires in coniferous plantations.
I dont believe in land ownership but i do believe in land respect and if I opened a gate I would close it after i went thru it
Respecting the land is most important. I think anyone who has an appreciation of hiking and camping would respect the land and others that use it, Thanks for watching 👍
Enjoyed that ! New sub here 👍🏻🏕
Cheers Ally 👍
Is that accent real?
Yeah boi 🍀