We’ve done several posts on the Sheep’s Head and the marked hiking trails that crisscross that peninsula. But we actually live on a different peninsula, The Mizen, and it is just as glorious and wild and beautiful.
The road to the Mizen Head starts at Ballydehob, runs along the southern side of the peninsula through Schull and Toormore and on to Goleen and Crookhaven. At the far or western end are the beaches of Barley Cove and the Mizen Head Lighthouse and Visitor Centre. There are no villages on the northern side of the peninsula until you reach Durrus, which also marks the start of the Sheep’s Head Peninsula. It is bounded on the south by the waters and islands of Roaringwater Bay and on the north by Dunmanus Bay. The whole peninsula is rich in history and archaeology and we plan future posts about many aspects of life here.
For the moment, a flavour in photographs of what The Mizen landscape has in store for visitors.
Dunbeacon Stone Circle
Ballyrisode Beach
Dunmanus Bay
Mizen Head
Dunmanus Harbour
Three Castle Head
Roaringwater Journal 
Thank you Finola. Such beautiful and peaceful countryside. No wonder you decided to live there.
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Hi Jan – When are you coming back to Ireland to see for yourself?
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Lovely! And (apart from two small figures on a footpath near Ballyrisode Beach) not a soul in sight…
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They were a lovely elderly couple with whom we had a great chat – they were driving a car we have a yen for. But you are right – the roads are EMPTY!
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Fabulous pictures! I enjoy your posts and anxiously await the next.
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Thanks, Betty. Any requests?
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just beautiful….
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Thanks, Sean! Are you from here?
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Finola, sorry but I have only just seen your reply, my father is from Fahane on the Sheeps Head and I have been coming to west cork since I was a baby & I am now 49 !!
I also speak with Pat Crowley (durrus history) & follow ”freespiral” on blipfoto, if you know of any other west cork blogs i’d be grateful if you direct me to them.
Great blog from you and Robert, my wife and I really look forward to reading them on a sunday evening !
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I think you DID reply tp this before, Sean. I really like Tim and Sandra’s Wayoutwestblowinblog but they are now using Youtube rather than Worpress. Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/user/WayOutWestx2
The only other blog I have found of the kind you are looking for, I think, is this one – Look at the Nine Days on the Mud section of this blog: http://www.ireland-travels.com.
Thanks so much for your kind comments!!
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God’s country! I suspect there might be a fairy or two, too!
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Maybe hiding in the castle.
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Beautiful Finola! How exciting, through your report I am looking forward to exploring the area too.
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Thanks, Brendan. The pictures tell the story better than words could.
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I am enjoying your Journal – thanks Finola for such splendid entries on your Blog.
Here, we have had an inch of rain, welcomed after seven weeks of superb but dry weather
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And I love your bulletins, Ann!
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