Glengarriff

Wanderlust Glengarriff ( www.wanderlust.ie ) offers tours throughout Bantry Bay and West Cork, while Sheep's Head Way ( www.thesheepshead.com ) is a voluntary committee that runs walks and activities on Sheep's Head Peninsula.

A Luring Wild Otherworldliness John Crowley 2011

I love unspoiled nature, adds Mr. Bäuchle, who runs walking trips for visitors through Wanderlust Glengarriff www.wanderlust.ie .

A Luring Wild Otherworldliness John Crowley 2011

It is reached by ferry from the nearby town of Glengarriff, whose beauty has captured the imagination of many over the years.

A Luring Wild Otherworldliness John Crowley 2011

"There are more therapists than customers in this area!" laughs Markus Bäuchle, a German who came here 11 years ago with his aromatherapist wife to live in a remote farmstead near Glengarriff.

A Luring Wild Otherworldliness John Crowley 2011

"What sends picturesque tourists to the Rhine and Saxon Switzerland as within five miles round the pretty inn of Glengarriff there is a country of the magnificence of which no pen can give an idea," Victorian author William Makepeace Thackeray wrote in 1842.

A Luring Wild Otherworldliness John Crowley 2011

Apart from the beauty of the situation and the mildness of its climate, Glengarriff possesses splendid facilities for sea bathing and boating.

The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway Robert Lloyd Praeger 1909

To Glengarriff the coach runs by very beautiful scenery, terminating in the lovely creek of the bay at ~Eccles 'Hotel~ and by the fair height where ~Roche's Hotel~ commands the view.

The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway Robert Lloyd Praeger 1909

Or from Kenmare, 20 miles, or from Glengarriff the tourist can ride to Parknasilla, 16 miles from Kenmare, where there is an excellent modern hotel and some of the loveliest scenery in Ireland.

The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway Robert Lloyd Praeger 1909

The position of this favoured and sheltered sea inlet upon the isothermal map shows it to have a mean annual temperature of 52 degrees, being similar in this regard to its neighbour, Glengarriff, and registering a higher mean annual temperature than Ventnor or Torquay.

The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway Robert Lloyd Praeger 1909

Glengarriff to Gougane Barra, through the Pass of Keimaneigh, "the path of the deer," is one of the great excursions to be made.

The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway Robert Lloyd Praeger 1909