MTC BANSHEE

The Mount to Coast Banshee

NEW FOR 2026

Race Distance – 44 miles

Part of the Mount to Coast End to End Challenge Series. (see tab section for more information).

Take on this single day challenge from the Limerick City Hotel.

Most of the route follows the MizMal ® route as provided by Wild Atlantic Cycling and concludes at Bellbridge House, Spanish Point.

The MTC Banshee is also Day 5 of the end to end challenge of Ireland – MizMal ®.

Bespoke race medal for all finishers.

You can choose at check-out to upgrade your entry and include the official race t-shirt and hi-viz jacket.

The Banshee is one of the better-known of the many Irish mythological creatures, mainly due to the popularity of storytelling in Irish culture.

A female spirit from Irish mythology, the Banshee can appear in many forms.

She can be an old woman with frightening eyes, a pale lady in a white dress, or a beautiful woman wearing a shroud.

Regardless of how she looks, it’s her wail that sends shivers up the spine of many, as it signals impending doom. The mournful “keening,” or wailing screaming or lamentation, at night was believed to foretell the death of a member of the family of the person who heard the spirit. In Ireland banshees were believed to warn only families of pure Irish descent.

Sometimes the banshee assumes the form of some sweet-singing virgin of the family who died young, and has been given the mission by the invisible powers to become the harbinger of coming doom to her mortal kindred. Or she may be seen at night as a shrouded woman, crouched beneath the trees, lamenting with a veiled face; or flying past in the moonlight, crying bitterly: and the cry of this spirit is mournful beyond all other sounds on earth, and betokens certain death to some member of the family whenever it is heard in the silence of the night.