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Seamount Farmhouse Bed & Breakfast Bantry Accommodation overlooking Bantry Bay
in South West Ireland. We welcome
you to our Seventh Generation Farmhouse B&B with magnificent views of Bantry
Bay and mountains in West Cork
Photo Gallery can be viewed here.
Guests can enjoy a 24 hour tea and coffee making facility available.
Situated 12 km west of Bantry in the heart of the Sheeps Head peninsula West Cork. Ideal location for walking the Sheeps
Head way, touring Beara Peninsula and Mizen Head. Local tour guide Le Guide
de Routard.
Brittany Ferries and Michelin Guide Recommended. Enjoy walking in West Cork, where Seamount Farmhouse has walking maps
available for sale
and also a walk guide if required. We aim to make your stay in the Bantry and
Sheeps Head Peninsula a pleasant one.
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Hill Walking on the Sheeps Head Peninsula
Hillside Walks are located 12km South West of Bantry on the shores of Bantry
Bay. Our West Cork Hill Walking Holidays and B&B are situated in the heart of the Sheeps
Head Peninsula with the Beara and Mizen Peninsulas to the north and south
respectively. This beautiful quite place is a world away from the rat race, it
allows you to relax and unwind and is an ideal base for a walking holiday - the
best way to explore one of the least known peninsulas along the Irish coastline
and enjoy its tranquillity, beauty and rugged landscape lapped by the Atlantic
Ocean. There are few more beautifully located or more delightful walks in the
whole of Ireland.
The Sheep's Head Way is a fully way marked 88km/55mile route and
is ideal for self-guided walking with many loop walk facilities for those who
wish to vary their route. There are a number of historical and
archaeological
monuments to be found amidst a spectacular landscape of mountains and sea. You
will also have the chance to encounter an array of rare wild flowers, view the
dolphins in the bay and take some time to acquaint yourself with some
interesting bird life. The terrain varies as you progress along the route that
usually goes out on the Bantry Bay side of the peninsula along a wide open
rocky ridge with good vegetation cover. However there are wet patches as you
progress to the lighthouse at the end of the peninsula. You return on the Dunmanus Bay side along gentler, low level farmland, moor and close knit
villages. The average length of the walks each day is between 15 and 22 km's
with the highest point being 345m. Please note each walk can be tailored to suit
your individual ability.
Bantry Bay The Song
Come help me boys, to sing a song
And lilt a lively roundlay
As fast and free we boom along
And top the waves of Bantry Bay
A fair wind fills our flowing sail
But let it blow from where it may
We'll woo the breeze of brave and gale
With joyful hearts of Bantry Bay
Oh there are harbours made with hands
With sticks and stones with mud and clay
With piles and beams and iron hand
We've no such thing in Bantry Bay
We've fair Glengarriff silvery tide
We've grand Bearhaven where to today
The fleets of half the world might ride
With room to swing in Bantry Bay
Historic scenes come into view
As on we plough our water way
For chieftains bold and clansmen true
Were long long the lords of Bantry Bay
And well we hope the world may see
Ere many years have passed away
The sons of patriot ancestry
Again hold sway by Bantry Bay
So trim your sails ,and ease your sheets
And hoist your buntings bright and gay
Our trip has been a bunch of sweets
Hip Hip Hurrah for Bantry Bay
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