Derrynane HouseDaniel O'Connell's house and coastal estate near Caherdaniel, with dunes and a beach below the grounds.
Island
Dursey Island Cable Car
Castletownbere, County Cork
A cable car that takes six people at a time across the sound to Dursey Island, at the western end of the Beara peninsula.
The most westerly of West Cork’s inhabited islands, Dursey lies across a narrow sound that one crosses by boarding the only cable car in Ireland.
- Where
- Castletownbere, County Cork
- Official site
- durseyisland.ie
- Map
- Directions · OpenStreetMap
- Before you go
- Opening times, prices and access change. Check with the place itself.
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