The most relevant publications for anyone planning to walk The Wicklow Way are as follows:
The Wicklow Way Map Guide, compiled and published by East West Mapping has been updated and revised for 2005. This excellent publication has now reverted to booklet format and besides clear maps it contains several pages on local and natural history. Highly recommended by several trail walkers. Copies may be ordered via the EastWest website or purchased from good specialist hiking equipment shops and some bookshops.
Updated for 2008, The Wicklow Way by Jacquetta Megarry and Sandra Bardwell, is published by Rucksack Readers of Dunblane, Scotland. This booklet gives a very comprehensive description of the route and contains much relevant additional information and many fine photographs. It is an ideal accompaniment to the East West Mapping publication, being written for travel in a north/south direction.
Written by J B Malone, creator of The Wicklow Way, and first published in 1988 this book has undergone several revisions. It divides the walk into seven stages, corresponding closely to those described in WicklowWay.com. Malone's recall and description of detail are outstanding and generously supplemented by reproductions of a plethora of his original sketches.
This series of maps on a scale of 1:50,000 (2 centimetres = 1 kilometre) provide a detailed topographical picture of the Wicklow Mountains. Ordnance Survey Maps 56 & 62 include some 90% of the Wicklow Way. (The northernmost 10-12 km is on no.50, while no.61 covers the final kilometre).
This book by Suzanne Barnes recounts the intriguing true story of a plane of French Girl Guides which crashed into Djouce Mountain in 1946. The crash site is adjacent to the Wicklow Way. More information on the Crash on Djouce Mountain...
