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Leave the village by the Kenmare road passing the Roman Catholic church you will come to a wooden entrance on your left with a Gate Lodge. Passing through this entrance you will soon reach a picnic area with very many walks leading from it.
Continue along this gravel road and it joins a tar road leading in to the Glen. Follow this to your left and you will pass through the whole forest area of new and mature woodland.

Past this spot you then travel on towards Barley Lake which...

Lis Ard Garden cover a huge area of 200 acres devoted to Irish Nature. The Garden have woodlands, waterfalls, medows and lakes. All of these aspects give visitors a truely enjoyable experience of tranquility and calmness. The Huge, ancient trees of 150 years old, surround you like the walls of a catherdral. The whole gardens leaves Man in the centre of nature.
Here the stage is set for fascinating light shows in an atmosphere of heavenly silience. This can be...

Millstreet Country Park is made up of over five hundred acres, of lakes, waterfalls, streams, wetlands, walks, picnic area, moorlands, arboretum, herb rich meadows, ornamental gardens, archaeological sites, native deer, birds and wildlife. Treat yourself to a visit, you'll find yourself coming back again and again.

Audio Visual Presentation: One of the features is an audio visual presentation that takes you back through the ages, the evolution of the landscape from the pre-ice age, J...

The Blackwater Way comprises two sections: Avondhu and Duhallow. This varied trail includes the lower slopes of the Knockmealdown Mountains. It drops through the green lanes and boreens of sparsely populated hill farms to the historic settlements and rich farm and woodland of the Balckwater Valley.

It rises again onto the slopes of the Nagle Hills, where there are superb views over the Munster Plains, then to Shrone, just north of the Paps Mountains, which offers a contrast of wild b...

The Beara Way, incorporating part of the O'Sullivan Beara Way, is a long distance walking route around the highly spectacular peninsula with a large concentration of historical and archaeological sites en route.
The main towns on the route are Kenmare, Glengarriff and Castletownbere (a commercial fishing port and an excellent centre for exploring the peninsula).

There are a number of colourful villages in between: Allihies, Ardgroom, Adrigole and Eyeries. Bere and Dursey, t...

The Sheep's Head Way encompasses the Sheep's Head peninsula and the greater Bantry area in West Cork. Starting in the Square, Bantry, it goes out west on the northern (Bantry Bay) side of the peninsula, all the way to Sheep's Head, and then back east to Bantry on the southern side (Dunmanus Bay) of the peninsula via Kilcrohane, Ahakista and Durrus.
During most of the Sheep's Head Way the walker will have spectacular views of Bantry and Dunmanus Bays; sometimes both at the same time.

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A garden for the Romantic; quiet and peaceful, of woodlands sloping down to a sea-estuary with interesting and varied wild life. Based on a number of woodland glades and a serpentine millpond amid a scene reminiscent of the background of a Douanier Rousseau painting by which it was inspired.

This has been the life work of Gwendoline and Peter Harold-Barry, who purchased Creagh in 1945, and now being continued in the form of "Creagh Gardens Trust". The walled garden, dating from Regenc...

This woodland area lies on the Owanabue River. The area is noted for its fine coastal views and forest walks....

Experience otters, badgers, foxes and minks in their natural enviroment. The lakeside with its own unique vegetation has been declared a natural reserve.
It is now the home of innumerable common and rare water birds....

This walk can be done clockwise or anti-clockwise, but, clockwise is recommended as being the less steep ascent and more pleasant scenically. The entrance to the walk is at an iron gate on the right of the Kenmare road, approximately 1-1/2 miles from Glengarriff village.
Passing through the gate you walk on a roughish path ascending steadily around bends to another gate at the summit. Just beyone this point magnificent views of the harbour area and Garnish Island can be photographed....