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Ring Fort - Cottage : Holiday in Our Quiet House Overlooking Bantry Bay With us you can make your dream come true, because we offer a holiday in our quiet house Ring Fort Cottage in the southwest of Ireland. Enjoy some time in the cosmopolitan nature of Castletownbere, Co. Cork. The house is situated on the Beara Peninsula, overlooking Bantry Bay and the small island of Iceland Bere.

Here you have the opportunity to go hiking, fishing and horseback riding, just enjoy the mild Gulf Stream climate with a beach walk and get to know the Emerald Isle and its people. Get to know the rest, you can relax in and around the streams rushing around the house listening.

Ring Fort - Cottage was built in 1995 and is approximately 108 square meters. It has a large kitchen with dining area for 6 people, a fitted kitchen with electric stove, oven, dishwasher and microwave and a stove for heating. The living room has a dining area, a seating area for 4 people, and an open fireplace and satellite - TV. There are 3 bedrooms (2 double, 1 single) available.

The bathroom has a separate shower - and bath. In the utility (rear entrance), a washer and dryer available. Before the house is a small terrace, garden furniture is also for the present (table, 4 chairs and umbrella). The historic fishing village with about 1000 inhabitants, is protected by the upstream Bere Iceland and is Europe's safest and 2 largest natural harbor.

The southwest of Ireland is also called botanical garden called. Influenced by the Gulf Stream there is here a very mild climate all year round so palm trees, rhododendrons and fuchsias thrive splendidly. Frost and snow is rarely as good as unknown. Everywhere one finds evidence of the past, magical stone circles, castles, ancient defenses, so-called ring forts, old copper mines and much more.

The houses located on the outskirts Dunboy Castle today an exclusive hotel. Nearby are the ruins of Puxley. The Puxley's been immortalized rich copper mine owner whose history in the novel The Heirs of Clonmere by Daphne du Maurier. The house is located 5 km outside the village on a hill called Teernahillane. Traffic except for local traffic is almost non-exist.

The small settlement includes six houses, two of which are permanently inhabited. On the meadows at house & horses graze Sharp. Hiking possibilities exist, with the Beara Way, next to house. It is also possible, with our neighbor Sean O'Sullivan, rent horses. Whether sea or surf fishing, fishing possibilities are endless. sailing, surfing and swimming in the resort or at beach about 30 min away Ballydonegan are possible.

For lovers of golf in the resort is a 9 hole course available. In Kenmare, 50 km away is an 18 hole course, just as in Bantry. The 140 km-long ring of Beara. The Subtropical Gardens in Glengarriff. The Ring of Kerry, Killarney, Gougane Barra, Bantry House and Dursey Iceland. The capital of the county of Cork is located about two hours drive away from Castletownbere. Swimming, Satellite TV, Shower, Washer/Dryer, Terrace, Garden View, Near Beach, Gas Stove/Fireplace, Beach, Windsurfing, Golf, Sailing, Mountain

Castletownbere

• Europe
• Ireland
• South West
• Castletownbere

Other activities:
Fishing, Horseback riding, Golf, Hiking