Great Western Greenway

The Great Western Greenway is a greenway rail path in County Mayo, Ireland. It is forty two kilometres long and begins in Westport and results in Achill, passing thru the cities of Newport and Mulranny as it runs alongside the coast of Clew Bay. It is an off-road path supposed for use by using cyclists and walkers. It follows the path of the previous Achill extension of the Westport railway line, which turned into constructed inside the 1890s and closed in 1937. An anticipated 300 people cycle and walk the path every day, which changed into constructed at a cost of 5.7 million. The first segment, from Newport to Mulranny, changed into opened in April 2010.

It become named because the 2011 Irish winner of the European Destinations of Excellence award. The complete route become opened by using Taoiseach Enda Kenny, T. D. And Minister of State for Tourism and Sport, Michael Ring, T. D., on 29 July 2011. According to a 2013 have a look at, the Great Western Greenway had a mean of 471 cycle trips consistent with day, or 172,000 users in overall per annum. It brings approximately 405,000 from non-domestic travelers and 737,000 from domestic vacationers annually, giving the facility a payback period of 6 years from its preliminary creation.