Inches House & Boat Angling Centre

            Eyeries, Beara, West Cork, South West Ireland          E-mail: info@irelandseaangling.com  

                    Tel/Fax: + 353 (0)27 74494                                     Boat Mob.  + 353 (0) 863983856   

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The Beara Peninsula is a 45km long peninsula jutting out from the South West of Ireland into the clear blue waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Our shores are lapped by the Gulf Stream during the summer months and water temperatures often are around the 15 degree Celsius mark.

Inches House is situated 5km north of Castletownbere and 1km from the pretty Village of Eyeries.

The main town of Castletownbere has everything you could wish for on your Ireland Angling holiday with numerous pubs and places to eat coupled with a very good grocery store which will provide you with everything you need for a self-catering holiday down to Sandwiches for packed lunches etc.

Eyeries Village is a short stroll from Inches House. Here there is a good grocery store that sells nearly everything from videos to Petrol. There is a Post Office. There are also two pubs in the village with our favourite being Causkeys which has a fabulous view over Coulagh Bay and beyond to the mountains on the Ring of Kerry Peninsula. To watch the sun set over the Islands off the end of Kerry  with a pint of Murphy's in your hand is quite something!!! Sunday nights are also great fun but get your dancing shoes on if you are going!!!

Other villages on the peninsula include Ardgroom with two pubs and a post office. The village Inn serves great pub food. Allihies is the most westerly village on the Peninsula also with good pub eating at O'Neills. Thursday nights there is a good ol knees up with local musicians at Jimmy's, prepare for a late night though as the music rarely gets underway until 10PM. There is a fine strand below the village called Ballydonegan.

At the end of the Peninsula is a cable car (Ireland's only Cable car) connecting Beara to the Island of Dursey which is beautiful to walk on a fine day. From here there is quite often Bottle nosed and common Dolphins  and Minke Whales swimming by whilst the Island is a Mecca for Birdwatchers as quite rare species stop of here on their annual migrations as well as resident Gannets in their thousands and Puffins also..

Going East from Castletownbere is the village of Adrigole which also boasts a post office/grocers store, a cafe/Bistro on the waters edge called the Boat House cafe which serves food during the day and several pubs. There is also a hostel/campsite here. It is from Adrigole that the turning to the Healy pass should be taken on a fine day as the views from the pass on the Cork/Kerry border are most spectacular. On the other side of the Healy Pass is a wooded area called Lauragh with the lovely Dereen Gardens and the oldest pub on the Peninsula called the "An Sibin".

For more information on the Beara Peninsula try a couple of the links in the useful Links page.

Discovery series map No. 84 is also very informative.

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