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! It can be accessed by road or on an exhilarating cycle or walk. A very steep and winding road brings you up above all but the highest parts of West Cork’s Caha mountains. Park your car here if you […]
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 […]