Children love the Glengarriff Fairy Walk and its tiny fairy houses dotted around the village’s Shoreside Trail. The trail can be found in the pleasant wooded area between the Blue Pool and Glengarriff Pier, and the little houses and figures are a great source of conversation, sparking children’s imaginations and developing their curiosity about the […]
Barley Lake
Barley Lake – a glacial corrie lake just outside Glengarriff – is well worth a visit! The corrie lake or tarn was formed in the Ice Age 10,000 years ago when a melting glacier left a crater behind on the mountainside. Today, this remote spot is as still and picturesque as it is isolated! It […]
Beara-Breifne Way
Glengarriff is a key staging post on the Beara-Breifne Way, which traces the historic march of O’Sullivan Bere in 1603. Glengarriff is part of the ancestral home of the O’Sullivans in Ireland and Dónal Cam O’Sullivan Bere was the last great Chieftain of West Cork and South Kerry. The Beara-Breifne Way – Ireland’s longest national […]