Day 4 - Cork -Rosscarbery
Today is a full day to enjoy the South West Coast of Ireland. You will receive a narrated tour as the coach drives the unparalleled beauty of the landscape of this area.
Drive to the important town of Clonakilty, a vital agricultural centre and boasting many tempting beaches such as Owenahincha and Inchydoney. From here on the road meets many charming villages, Rosscarbery, Glandore, Union Hall and Castletownshend, set in picturesque surroundings and sharing their appeal between sylvan beauties and the call of the sea. Drombeg Stone Circle also on this road is a circle of 17 standing stones, which on excavation showed that there had been an urn burial in the centre. It has been dated to between 153 BC and 127AD.
Continue onward through Rosscarbery, where you will return for your overnight.
Stop for morning coffee at leisure in Skibbereen, possibly, the most colourful town in Ireland. Each building, whether shop or home, forms part of a complete rainbow of colour, mauve next to green alongside purple adjacent to yellow. There is none of your bland west-coast whitewash here! The buildings are like a string of Celtic jewels that jar, then delight the eye with agreeable surprise, especially on a drab rainy day.
Here, you can visit the Skibbereen Heritage Centre. In visiting the Skibbereen Heritage Centre in the town of Skibbereen, you will learn of the history of the town, which was one of the worst affected areas of the Great Hunger Famine of the 1840s. The exhibition depicts life during that time in an area that was notorious for its overly disturbing forms of suffering among the victims and the survivors. The nearby Abbeystrewery graveyard pays homage to the approximately 10,000 victims that suffered at the mercy of the potato crop failure.The stories of the old combined with modern technology of video and voice depictions, is a view into the Great Hunger Famine like no other.
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