Bray Head loop walk cliffs Valentia Island Ireland
Sceiligs View Bray Head Loop Walk, Valentia Island, County Kerry 03082013
This is a moderate 2-3 hour (7 km) loop walking route to Bray Head and along the coastline at the west end of Valentia Island, Co. Kerry in the south west of Ireland. It is a steady climb to the tower with spectacular views along the cliff walk.
Bray Head is located on the western end of Valentia Island, County Kerry. At its summit is Bray Tower, a two-storey abandoned signal tower built by English forces in 1815 during the Napoleonic wars and used as a signal station along with several other Martello towers located all along the Ireland coast. It was designed like a 16th century Irish tower house with a chimney and is surrounded by a stone wall. In 1907 Bray Tower was used by the Navy as signal station and again during WWII it was used for coastal watches. The 90 minute walk to the tower from a new car park is scenic, historical and archaeological walk and well worth the €2 car park charge where you can soak in the views and have a picnic.
From the tower there are great views out west over the Skellig Islands, north looking out over the sheer cliffs to Dingle and south along the Skellig Coast, Portmagee and Puffin Island. If you're lucky you may also be able to see some whales passing the headland in the water below. Just below and west of the tower are the remains of the word EIRE written using stones in large letters to allow pilots during war times to identify the Irish coastline.
Near the car park, is the historic site where the first Trans-Atlantic Cable landed in 1866 which connected North America to the rest of the world. At this time Valentia Island was the centre of the world for communications.
Half the way up to the tower on the south side of the road is a unique heritage site that many miss. Here there are remains of five dry stone buildings from early Christian times with 12 decorated stones, crosses and other geometric shapes engraved on them
Hiking the Bray Head Loop on Valentia Island, County Kerry, Ireland
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We went for a hike on the Bray Head Loop. It is on Valentia Island in County Kerry, Ireland and is quite close to Portmagee. On the hike you can see Portmagee harbor and the Skellig islands as you make your way up to the ruins of Bray signal tower. Shot in October 2014.
Valentia Island Bray Head Looped Walk
The Valentia Island Bray Head Loop Walk is a stunning hill walking tour to an old signal tower situated on steep cliffs overlooking the Skelligs and the Iveragh peninsula.
Bray Head Loop Walk 1
This is a vid of the scenery at the head itself including the walk through the Signal Station.
Bray Head Loop
Napfényes nap a Valentia-szigeten, Bray Headnél (0:12-től jól látszódnak a háttérben a Skellig-szigetek)
Bray Head Valentia Island
An unknown gem of Iveraghs coastline flanked to the North by Dingle Bay and the Blaskets, to the West by the Skelligs and to the South by Puffin island and the highest cliffs in the county.
Bray Head Loop Walk 2
The second stage of the walk. Looking towards Togher Cliffs.
Valentia Island / Bray Head, Ireland
Bray Head, Valentia Island, flyover. DJI Mavic Pro
View from Bray Head Tower, Valentia Island. Co. Kerry
Humpback Whale off Bray Head, Valentia Island Co. Kerry
This Humpback Whale was less than a mile off of Bray head, Valentia island on Saturday 3/10/15.
It appears to log after the initial sequence of video (where the mainland is clearly seen nearby) where the whale shuts off one half of its brain to sleep while the other controls the animals movements, ensuring that the whale surfaces to breath.
This was one of four Humpback whales in the area and it was a fitting end to the best whale watching of my life!
View from Bray Head - Valentia Island Kerry Ireland
View of mainland and the World Heritage Site of the Skellig Islands from Bray Head on Valentia Island, Kerry, Ireland. Valentia Island is just off the Ring of Kerry and is a must see.
View from Bray Head Tower. Valentia Island. Co. Kerry
Bray Head Cliff Walk 2019I Ireland
Bray Head - County Kerry - Ireland
Bray Head - Valentia Island - Ring of Kerry
The abortive French invasion of Ireland in 1796 bought about a scurry of tower buildings along the coasts, so that signals could be passed from one to another in the event of another attack. Valentia Islands tower is said to have been constructed in 1815 for this purpose. It was used up until 1920s by naval authorities as a signal station.
The old Bray Head tower was briefly reoccupied by coast watchers during the emergency (World War II); it was they who set stones in the turf below the tower to spell out EIRE to advise passing (or mislaid) aircraft where they were
Bray Head, Valentia island at the edge of the Atlanntic
Taken from below the headlands tower, the rolling rocky cliffs plummeting into Dingle Bay are truly unique,
IRLAND BEST OF VALENTIA ISLAND Ring of Skellig
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Bray Head Walk
A video of the sights you will encounter up the magnificent Bray Head walk in Bray, Co.Wicklow, Ireland.
Filmed and edited by Gavin Lacey
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Bray Head View
Early morning views from Valentia. See Blasket Islands North, the Skelligs West and Portmagee to the South