Castletownbere

  • Castletownbere is a colourful fishing town located on the Beara Peninsula in County Cork
  • This is the main western town (but a very small one) of the long and very lovely peninsula of Beara which terminates in Dursey Island away out in the Atlantic.
  • Offshore is Bere Island, where a sailing school is based.
  • Castletownbere has the second largest fishing fleet in Ireland, coming next only to Killybegs in Co Donegal.
  • About 3km west you'll find a signpost to Dunboy Castle. It was the scene of a dramatic episode of the Elizabethan Wars in 1602.

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