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The Best Attractions In Schull

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Schull or Skull is a town in County Cork, Ireland. Located on the southwest coast, in West Cork, the village is dominated by Mount Gabriel . It has a sheltered harbour, used for recreational boating. The area, on the peninsula leading to Mizen Head, is popular with tourists, and there are numerous holiday homes along the adjoining coast. The village had a population of 693 in 2002. The town's secondary school, Schull Community College, houses one of the only planetariums in Ireland along with a sailing school. Each year Schull harbour hosts the Fastnet International Schools Regatta.
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  • 2. Altar Wedge Tomb Schull
    Altar Wedge Tomb is a wedge-shaped gallery grave and National Monument located in County Cork, Ireland.
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  • 3. Fastnet Lighthouse Schull
    Fastnet Rock, or simply Fastnet is a small islet in the Atlantic Ocean and the most southerly point of Ireland. It lies 6.5 kilometres southwest of Cape Clear Island and 13 kilometres from County Cork on the Irish mainland. Fastnet is known as Ireland's Teardrop, because it was the last part of Ireland that 19th century Irish emigrants saw as they sailed to North America.Fastnet Rock is a small clay-slate islet with quartz veins. It rises to about 30 metres above low water mark and is separated from the much smaller southern Little Fastnet by a 10 metres wide channel. Fastnet also gives its name to the sea area used by the Shipping Forecasts on BBC's Radio 4. The current lighthouse is the second to be built on the rock and is the highest in Ireland. Fastnet Rock is used as the midpoint of ...
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  • 5. Schull Planetarium Schull
    Schull or Skull is a town in County Cork, Ireland. Located on the southwest coast, in West Cork, the village is dominated by Mount Gabriel . It has a sheltered harbour, used for recreational boating. The area, on the peninsula leading to Mizen Head, is popular with tourists, and there are numerous holiday homes along the adjoining coast. The village had a population of 693 in 2002. The town's secondary school, Schull Community College, houses one of the only planetariums in Ireland along with a sailing school. Each year Schull harbour hosts the Fastnet International Schools Regatta.
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  • 6. Mount Gabriel Schull
    Mount Gabriel is a mountain on the Mizen Peninsula situated immediately to the north of the town of Schull, in West Cork, Ireland. Mt. Gabriel is 407m high and is the highest eminence in the coastal zone south and east of Bantry Bay. A roadway serving the radar installations on the summit is open to the public. From the peak of Mt. Gabriel, there are views South over Schull Harbour and Long Island Bay. To the east and southeast, the views take in Roaring Water Bay and its many islands, popularly known as Carbery's Hundred Isles. North and West is a view of the mountains of the Beara Peninsula and South Kerry. The Fastnet Rock is situated approximately 18 km to the South, and is visible in fine weather.
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  • 7. Cape Clear Ferries Schull
    Clear Island or Cape Clear Island lies south-west of County Cork in Ireland. It is the southernmost inhabited part of the island of Ireland and has a population of over 100 people. Officially it is a Gaeltacht , and most inhabitants speak Irish and English. Its nearest neighbour is Sherkin Island, 2 km east of the island. The island is divided into east and west halves by an isthmus called the Waist, with North Harbour to landward and South Harbour on the seaward side. Ferries sail from the North Harbour to Schull and Baltimore on the mainland. The South Harbour is a popular berth for yachts.
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  • 9. Inch Beach Inch
    Inch Island ) is an island in Lough Swilly, County Donegal, Ireland.
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  • 10. Garnish Island Glengarriff
    Garnish Island , is an island in Glengarriff harbour, part of Bantry Bay in southwest Ireland, which is a popular tourist attraction. The Office of Public Works, which maintains the gardens on the island, uses the name Ilnacullin to differentiate it from Garinish Island in County Kerry.
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  • 11. Inchydoney Beach Clonakilty
    Inchydoney is a small island, long connected to the mainland by two causeways, in West Cork, Ireland. The nearest town is Clonakilty. It has a Blue Flag beach.
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