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Baltimore and Sherkin Island

Ireland Cork Skibbereen

Baltimore and Sherkin Island
Photo: Michal Gorski, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A fishing and sailing village at the end of the road in West Cork, with pubs and seafood restaurants around its harbour and the ruins of a castle above. In 1631, Barbary pirates raided the village and took over a hundred people as slaves to North Africa.


Walk out to the Baltimore Beacon, a white tower on the cliffs, for views over the islands of Roaringwater Bay. Ferries run to Sherkin Island (10 minutes), with sandy beaches and a ruined friary, and to Cape Clear, Ireland's most southerly inhabited island, an Irish-speaking island known for birdwatching and whale watching.

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