John’s guidebook
My favourite activities
Kids and adults will love this unique experience.
Bring some change for the Model Boats and opt for the Train around the town.
Don't go on a windy day the little trains can get blown off course.
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West Cork Model Railway Village
Inchydoney RoadKids and adults will love this unique experience.
Bring some change for the Model Boats and opt for the Train around the town.
Don't go on a windy day the little trains can get blown off course.
Take a moonlight trip especially if forecast is for clear skies. Great host and really memorable unique experience as detailed in National Geographic.
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Atlantic Sea Kayaking
Take a moonlight trip especially if forecast is for clear skies. Great host and really memorable unique experience as detailed in National Geographic.
Visit the amazing church and graveyard. After that stroll down the road to the Castle. Some seriously good coffee to be had here.
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Castletownshend
Visit the amazing church and graveyard. After that stroll down the road to the Castle. Some seriously good coffee to be had here.
A beautiful Irish town. Well worth a trip to explore all the many shops and restaurants. Get your food shopping in the Supervalu at the top of the town. They stock award winning Gluten free products.
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Clonakilty
A beautiful Irish town. Well worth a trip to explore all the many shops and restaurants. Get your food shopping in the Supervalu at the top of the town. They stock award winning Gluten free products.
A great little links pitch and putt. The beach behind it is also wonderful. Peak season there is typically a mobile coffee unit there.
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Rosscarbery Pitch And Putt Club
A great little links pitch and putt. The beach behind it is also wonderful. Peak season there is typically a mobile coffee unit there.
Great Surf beach and school here.
https://inchydoneysurfschool.com/
This beach is huge and shallow far out. Great for sandcastles and moats as the tide comes in.
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Inchydoney Island
Great Surf beach and school here.
https://inchydoneysurfschool.com/
This beach is huge and shallow far out. Great for sandcastles and moats as the tide comes in.
If you find yourself in Skibbereen (15 minutes by car) this is place to go for proper Barista Coffee
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O'Neill Coffee
64 Townshend StIf you find yourself in Skibbereen (15 minutes by car) this is place to go for proper Barista Coffee
This is the place to go for Fish and Chips. Its right on the beach in Longstrand so its a scenic location. So popular there is always a queue but its worth the wait !
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Fish Basket Longstrand
This is the place to go for Fish and Chips. Its right on the beach in Longstrand so its a scenic location. So popular there is always a queue but its worth the wait !
This is where you will get the freshest fish in West Cork. The trawlers unload at the pier 50m across from the shop.
Make sure to ask the fishmonger for advice on how to cook your fish!
Union Hall is 6 minutes from the house and brings you across an amazing bridge.
Unionhall Smoked Fish
This is where you will get the freshest fish in West Cork. The trawlers unload at the pier 50m across from the shop.
Make sure to ask the fishmonger for advice on how to cook your fish!
Union Hall is 6 minutes from the house and brings you across an amazing bridge.
The farmers market takes place every Saturday from 09:30 to 14:00. Charming collection of stalls.
Seriously good craic as they might say!
http://skibbereenmarket.com/
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Skibbereen
The farmers market takes place every Saturday from 09:30 to 14:00. Charming collection of stalls.
Seriously good craic as they might say!
http://skibbereenmarket.com/
Magical spot, looks like a fresh water lake, but its actually a Salt Water lake. As a result has lots of rare and incredible fauna and fish. Some of which are found nowhere else in Ireland !
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Lough Hyne
Magical spot, looks like a fresh water lake, but its actually a Salt Water lake. As a result has lots of rare and incredible fauna and fish. Some of which are found nowhere else in Ireland !
This is three minutes from the house. An irish stonehenge excavated in 1958, thouugh it dates back to 3000 BC! It has plenty of good descriptive signs which give great explanations. Spend a nice half hour here.
Drombeg
This is three minutes from the house. An irish stonehenge excavated in 1958, thouugh it dates back to 3000 BC! It has plenty of good descriptive signs which give great explanations. Spend a nice half hour here.
a favourite walk
This is 15 minutes from the house. It's a pretty forest walk with narrow paths that run up and down by a river. The fairies moved in around 15 years ago, and judging by their growing settlements, lots of their friends have moved in too!
https://www.coillte.ie/site/rineen/
Rinneen
This is 15 minutes from the house. It's a pretty forest walk with narrow paths that run up and down by a river. The fairies moved in around 15 years ago, and judging by their growing settlements, lots of their friends have moved in too!
https://www.coillte.ie/site/rineen/
Park at the top and walk the lighthouse loop. Amazing views across the Atlantic from the lighthouse. Walk this after breakfast and have lunch in Schull. Its about a 40 minute drive from the house.
Or you could just walk the whole thing ;-)
http://thesheepsheadway.ie/
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Sheep's Head
Park at the top and walk the lighthouse loop. Amazing views across the Atlantic from the lighthouse. Walk this after breakfast and have lunch in Schull. Its about a 40 minute drive from the house.
Or you could just walk the whole thing ;-)
http://thesheepsheadway.ie/
Sightseeing
Like Sheep's head around 40 minutes away the other side of Schull. There is a nice visitors centre there as well as a pretty cool bridge - not for the faint hearted. You will also pass barleycove beach so you could link in a swim afterwards
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Mizen Head
Like Sheep's head around 40 minutes away the other side of Schull. There is a nice visitors centre there as well as a pretty cool bridge - not for the faint hearted. You will also pass barleycove beach so you could link in a swim afterwards
Not only does this perhaps have the prettiest small church in ireland (watch out for a wedding) the woods are breathtaking. If you are into 'Forest bathing' this is the ultimate location
This is definitely a day trip for those who are staying a week. I'd link this in with a lunch in Glengariff and then a trip to Garnish Island in the afternoon
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Gougane Barra
Not only does this perhaps have the prettiest small church in ireland (watch out for a wedding) the woods are breathtaking. If you are into 'Forest bathing' this is the ultimate location
This is definitely a day trip for those who are staying a week. I'd link this in with a lunch in Glengariff and then a trip to Garnish Island in the afternoon
The gardens are stunning here and you always see Seals on the small ferry boat trip out there. It's a day trip - 50 minutes from the house. Stop in bantry on the way there or back. Best to go there on a Sunny day
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Garinish Island
The gardens are stunning here and you always see Seals on the small ferry boat trip out there. It's a day trip - 50 minutes from the house. Stop in bantry on the way there or back. Best to go there on a Sunny day
The last port of the titanic. Such a pretty town, really sweet titanic museum and now an amazing tour of Spike Island also.
This is a trip to take on if you are travelling back to Dublin. Its around an hour 15 away, but 50 minutes of this is on the way back to Dublin! You can do both the Titanic museum and the Spike Island tour on the same day
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Cobh
The last port of the titanic. Such a pretty town, really sweet titanic museum and now an amazing tour of Spike Island also.
This is a trip to take on if you are travelling back to Dublin. Its around an hour 15 away, but 50 minutes of this is on the way back to Dublin! You can do both the Titanic museum and the Spike Island tour on the same day
Take the 10 minute ferry from Baltimore (25 mins away). This is a stunning island with tiny hidden beaches, coves and clear water not to mention some ruins!
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Sherkin Island
Take the 10 minute ferry from Baltimore (25 mins away). This is a stunning island with tiny hidden beaches, coves and clear water not to mention some ruins!