Notice: Banteer 5 mile road race - Sun 24th April 2022

This 5-mile road race organised by Mount Hillary AC is coming up in the village of Banteer to the west of Mallow on Sunday the 24th of April 2022 at 10am.

Pre-Enter HERE

You can also enter on the morning of the race.

All finishers of the race will receive this travel mug which is sponsored by EPS Group.

This is a pretty fast 5-mile course with lots of flat running at the start and over the last three miles.

Banteer is located about 20kms to the west of the town of Mallow in N Cork. It's just 1km south of the N72 Killarney to Mallow road.

The distance from Cork City is about 54 minutes and it's probably quicker to go via the main N20 road to Mallow and then take the N72 west. The alternative R579 route via Cloghroe and up over the hills to Nad might be shorter but it has a lot of twists and turns.

Banteer is also centrally located for any runners in Kerry or S Limerick.

Banteer 5-mile course... The route follows a figure of 8 pattern and it's shown above.... Yellow arrows for the first half and Green arrows for the second.

The first mile is mostly flat. 
The second mile has an ascent of about 35 metres or 110ft but that is spread out over the whole mile.
The third mile is a bit like a mirror image of the second mile in that there's a drop of about 30 metres spread out over a mile.
The fourth and fifth miles are pretty much flat and fast.

It looks like a reasonably fast course and the key is to get to the 2-mile mark in one piece so that you can take advantage of the last three miles.

Race Preview by Mt. Hillary...

Banteer, Co. Cork Sunday 24 th April 10 am - Fast PB Course - 40 Minutes Drive from Cork City - 30 Minutes Drive from Killarney

Results & Photos of the Banteer Show 5k... Sun 15th July 2018

For the vast majority of road races, the first person home is nearly always a man. For this 5k race in Banteer however there was an exception as Martina Kiely of St.Finbarr's AC ran a time of 18m 14s to be the first across the line.

Organised in association with Mount Hillary AC, there was a modest field of 61 finishers.

1    796    Martina Kiely    St Finbar    F    18.14
6    759    Niamh Harte    North Cork    F    19.18
15    751    Elaine Guinane    Eagle AC    F    21.38
2    756    Patrick O'Keefe    Mt. Hillary AC    M    18.31
3    797    Denis Kiely    St Finbar    M    19.10
4    795    Dan Burke    Millstreet AC    M    19.13

Juvenille
30    794    Amy Barrow    N/A    J    23.24
36    773    Eoin Looney    North Cork    J    24.35



Photos...
1) Mount Hillary AC have a gallery of photos HERE

Full results below...