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Return down the first zigzags, then bear left on the path (previously noted) running northwest along the ridge top under tall trees. It emerges at a smoothly bulldozed track (the Maam Road). Turn down right, signposted ‘Monument Road’.

The track slants left to a bend below a small crag. Here keep ahead for a few steps to the ‘Kinkhoast Well’, a small spring equipped with a pewter mug. Its waters are good against the ‘hoast’ or whooping cough, and according to local legend also for all other difficulties from poor performance in school to dreary Sunday sermons. Continue down the track until it bends back left. Here take a bracken path downhill, to a stile onto the Glen Lednock road. Head right for a few steps, then left at a signpost for Laggan Wood. The wide earth path leads to the riverside at Shaky Bridge. A ‘shoogle on the brig’ (‘a shaking on the bridge’) was cure for any indispositions not covered by the Kinkhoast Well. (Alas, since rebuilding by the Royal Engineers, the bridge is as firm as the Millennium Footbridge in London.) The path turns downstream, then slants up left with a few wooden steps to the top corner of Laggan Wood. Here it’s joined by a right-of-way path from the left. Follow the clear path ahead, with the plantation becoming an attractive oakwood.