Our guidebook to Ahakista and surroundings

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Our guidebook to Ahakista and surroundings

FOOD SCENE

Great food, great drinks, unbeatable view!
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Arundels By The Pier
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Great food, great drinks, unbeatable view!
Great food and best coffees
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Budds Restaurant
Main Street
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Great food and best coffees
fish restaurant in Bantry
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Fish Kitchen
New Street
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fish restaurant in Bantry
great pub food with a French flair
The Bantry Bay
Wolfe Tone Square
great pub food with a French flair
evenings only, fine dinning at its best, worth booking once during your stay
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Blairs Cove House
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evenings only, fine dinning at its best, worth booking once during your stay
great pub food with a view, and a breathtaking drive to get there
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O'Sullivans Bar, Crookhaven
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great pub food with a view, and a breathtaking drive to get there
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Heron Gallery Café & Gardens
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Known locally has the Tin Pub. No food here but best place to have a drink with a beautiful view on Dunmanus Bay from the large beer garden.
Ahakista Bar
Known locally has the Tin Pub. No food here but best place to have a drink with a beautiful view on Dunmanus Bay from the large beer garden.
Michelin 1 star restaurant at your doorstep. Advance booking recommended.
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Restaurant Chestnut - West Cork
Staball Hill
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Michelin 1 star restaurant at your doorstep. Advance booking recommended.
great coffee, delicacy, wines and stone baked pizza
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Manning's Emporium
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great coffee, delicacy, wines and stone baked pizza
stone wood fire pizza and sourdough breads
Dillon's Corner
stone wood fire pizza and sourdough breads
great day time food and evening tapas
West - cafe wine bar
great day time food and evening tapas
worth the trip for great food
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Liss Ard Estate
Castletownsend Rd
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worth the trip for great food
Old church turned into a restaurant. good simple food.
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Church Restaurant
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Old church turned into a restaurant. good simple food.
good food, great drive, lots to see.
Algiers Inn
good food, great drive, lots to see.
pub grub with a view. outside sittings. very busy in summer.
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Glandore Inn
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pub grub with a view. outside sittings. very busy in summer.
good food
Bally Bia
Main Street
good food
Teasey's Bistro
good food

Sightseeing

Beautiful and easy to walk to, even for beginners.
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Sheep's Head
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Beautiful and easy to walk to, even for beginners.
Take the ferry to Whiddy from Bantry and enjoy a pint at the pub
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Whiddy Island
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Take the ferry to Whiddy from Bantry and enjoy a pint at the pub
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Crookhaven
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Its not a trip to west cork if you dont stop here!
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Indlu yeBantry
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Its not a trip to west cork if you dont stop here!
Dramatic peninsula & cliffside area onto the Atlantic Ocean & known for its sweeping views.
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Mizen Head
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Dramatic peninsula & cliffside area onto the Atlantic Ocean & known for its sweeping views.
for a walk or a swim, nestled in between the rising green hills of the beautiful Mizen Peninsula, Barleycove Beach is a gently curving golden beach.
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Barleycove
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for a walk or a swim, nestled in between the rising green hills of the beautiful Mizen Peninsula, Barleycove Beach is a gently curving golden beach.
Fastnet Lighthouse is a 54m high lighthouse situated on the remote Fastnet Rock in the Atlantic Ocean. It is the most southerly point of Ireland and lies 6.5 kilometres southwest of Cape Clear Island and 13 kilometres from County Cork on the Irish mainland
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Fastnet Rock
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Fastnet Lighthouse is a 54m high lighthouse situated on the remote Fastnet Rock in the Atlantic Ocean. It is the most southerly point of Ireland and lies 6.5 kilometres southwest of Cape Clear Island and 13 kilometres from County Cork on the Irish mainland
The Baltimore Beacon is a white-painted stone beacon at the entrance to the harbour at Baltimore, County Cork, Ireland. The beacon was built at the order of the British government following the 1798 Rebellion. It was part of a series of lighthouses and beacons dotted around the Irish coast, forming a warning system.
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Baltimore
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The Baltimore Beacon is a white-painted stone beacon at the entrance to the harbour at Baltimore, County Cork, Ireland. The beacon was built at the order of the British government following the 1798 Rebellion. It was part of a series of lighthouses and beacons dotted around the Irish coast, forming a warning system.
Small boat trip. Historic gardens. Seals. Garinish or Garnish Island is an island in Glengarriff Bay, an inlet of Bantry Bay, near the shore of the Beara Peninsula in County Cork, Ireland. It is a tourist attraction with walled gardens and a Martello tower.
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Garinish Island
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Small boat trip. Historic gardens. Seals. Garinish or Garnish Island is an island in Glengarriff Bay, an inlet of Bantry Bay, near the shore of the Beara Peninsula in County Cork, Ireland. It is a tourist attraction with walled gardens and a Martello tower.
day trip at the beach. food.
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Inchydoney Beach
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day trip at the beach. food.
nature and sculpture
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The Ewe Experience
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nature and sculpture

Neighbourhoods

have a walk around and visit Ahakista.
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Ahakista
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have a walk around and visit Ahakista.

City/town information

a 20 minutes drive to Bantry for your shopping and sightseeing.
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Bantry
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a 20 minutes drive to Bantry for your shopping and sightseeing.
One hour and 15 minutes drive from Bantry, Cork is the second largest city in the Republic of Ireland, located in the south-west of Ireland, in the province of Munster. Where you can find everything and anything.
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Cork
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One hour and 15 minutes drive from Bantry, Cork is the second largest city in the Republic of Ireland, located in the south-west of Ireland, in the province of Munster. Where you can find everything and anything.
45 minutes drive from Ahakista.
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Skibbereen
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45 minutes drive from Ahakista.
1 hour 15 minutes drive from Ahakista, you will need to spend a full day to discover Clonakilty.
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Clonakilty
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1 hour 15 minutes drive from Ahakista, you will need to spend a full day to discover Clonakilty.
15 mn drive from Bantry. Nice walks. Boats to Garnish Island. Food and pubs. Food trucks in summer.
Glengarriff
15 mn drive from Bantry. Nice walks. Boats to Garnish Island. Food and pubs. Food trucks in summer.
great trip with breath taking views. food and shopping destination.
Kenmare Events & Marketing
great trip with breath taking views. food and shopping destination.
Day trip, shopping, food and more.
Killarney
Day trip, shopping, food and more.
shopping, walking, food
Clonakilty
shopping, walking, food

Food scene

Traders selling organic and locally produced food in an 18th-century covered market.
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Imarike yaseEngland
Grand Parade
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Traders selling organic and locally produced food in an 18th-century covered market.
Small village with a big food scene. Restaurants, cafes, health food shop and home of a 1 star Michelin restaurant.
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Ballydehob
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Small village with a big food scene. Restaurants, cafes, health food shop and home of a 1 star Michelin restaurant.
organic food shop
Hudsons Wholefoods
18 Main St
organic food shop
organic product / cafe
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Organico
2 Glengarriff Rd
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organic product / cafe
great day time food / cakes / coffee /shop / wine. take away only
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The Stuffed Olive
2a Bridge St
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great day time food / cakes / coffee /shop / wine. take away only
Local craft shop with great coffees.
Forest & Flock
10 New St
Local craft shop with great coffees.

Amacebiso ngesixeko

Ukuhamba-hamba

better have your own vehicle

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Ungaphoswa

Friday market in Bantry

on the Wolfe tone square, you wont miss it.
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Skibbereen farmer market on Saturday morning is a must

Situated in the town centre car park from 9 till 3pm