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The walk then comes onto the county council road, and where it meets the Goats Path Road TURNS LEFT. It then takes the FIRST RIGHT up a winding the hill, locally known as Bawn’s Road, to the top of the hill at Boolteenagh (“place of little booles or cattle enclosures”). Along this Road there are spectacular views of Whiddy Island, the inner harbour of Bantry, and you … [Read more...] about The Goat’s Path

By Johnny Crowley, Local Historian, Dromloc House B&B, Bantry “Lady’s Well, a little hollowed glen, was used as a Mass Rock in Penal times. In the Bantry area during these times the priest wasn’t hunted, provided he kept out of the way, certainly of the Landlord, and didn’t make a big scene about the religious practices. At the Penal time then, there was a story … [Read more...] about Lady’s Well

When you arrive in the village TURN RIGHT and walk through the village, and a short distance on the other side TURN RIGHT again, cross a field (stay to the edge please), and you head for Farranamanagh (“land of the monks”) Lake. This beautiful spot is reminiscent of Gougane Barra, where St. Finbar founded an island hermitage by a lake; did Finbar’s monks come here … [Read more...] about Farranamanagh

A New Type Of House By Francis Humphreys, Durrus: A Parish History The Old Court was a building of considerable historical significance. It was built between 1610-1640, that is after the Battle of Kinsale and before the 1641 rebellion, by Teige na Muclach of the McCarthys. It was built in the traditional Irish-Jacobean style of which Coppingers Court near Rosscarbery … [Read more...] about Durrus

By Jimmy Coakly, Storyteller & Local Historian, Born Tooreen 1915 “In the old days in the month of May in Tooreen, there’d be a bit of excitement because they’d be watching out for the French lobster boats. Imagine the French in those days, they’d come all the way from France right under Tooreen for fishing lobsters. That was a long journey. They had no engine, no … [Read more...] about Cabbage & Cannons