page_title: Pilgrim Paths of Ireland
section_title: Pilgrim Passport
hierarchical_section_title: Pilgrim Paths of Ireland / Pilgrim Passport
caption_attribution_description: English: Station of the Cross on Knocknadobar Mountain, Kerry
context_page_description: Pilgrim Paths Ireland is a non-denominational representative body for Ireland's medieval pilgrim paths. PPI was founded in 2013 to oversee the development and promotion of Ireland's medieval pilgrimage paths, and consists of 12 community groups supporting specific paths. PPI holds an annual National Pilgrimage Paths Week during Easter, and issues a National Pilgrimage Passport to finishers of the 5 main trails: Cnoc na dTobar, Cosán na Naomh, St. Finbarr's Pilgrim Path, St. Kevin’s Way, and Tochar Phádraig.
context_section_description: During the Easter 2016 National Pilgrim Paths festival week,  the PPI launched the National Pilgrim Passport.
  At the launch, the Irish Independent described it as the Celtic Camino, and a "pedestrian version of the Wild Atlantic Way".
  The passport covers 124 km of Ireland's most important medieval pilgrim paths, with stamping points arranged at the conclusion of each path so that walkers can "earn" their completed passport, in a similar manner to the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage trails in Spain.  On completion of all five paths, participants can apply for a Pilgrim Certificate (Irish: Teastas Oilithreachta), from Ballintubber Abbey (which is at the start of the Tochar Phádraig pilgrimage route).
  As of June 2019, the five routes included on the Pilgrim Passport are:
  14 people were registered as finishers (Irish: Críochnóirí) of the five above walks in 2016, 30 were registered in 2017, and 44 were registered in 2018.
  On, 15 January 2017, Irish ultramarathon runner Susan Steele, became the first person to run all 5 paths of the Irish Pilgrim Journey, over a period of 5 consecutive days.
caption: Station of the cross, Knocknadobar
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