Travel Information

Aer Lingus Regional - Budget airline with flights to/from Cork from regional airports via Stobart Air

Aer Lingus - National airline with flight connections within Ireland and to/from Europe, UK & USA

Cork Airport - Cork International Airport
Brittany Ferries (Rosscoff - Cork)
Bus Éireann - Bus Information
Iarnród Éireann - Irish Rail Information
Irish Ferries (daily sailings, Pembroke - Rosslare)
Met Eireann - Weather Information

Ryanair - National budget airline with flights to/from the UK
Stena Line Ferries (daily sailings all year, Fishguard - Rosslare)

Tourist Information

Bantry Visitors Guide
Discover Ireland - official guide
Cork Guide
Ireland's Hidden Gems - useful guide to West Cork

West Cork Connection - guide to annual regional festivals & businesses

Cork Events & Entertainment

A Taste of West Cork Food Festival (Skibbereen, September)

Ballydehob Jazz Festival (May)
Baltimore Fiddle Fair (May)
Baltimore Seafood Festival (May)

Baltimore Secret Gardens (July)
Baltimore Wooden Boat Festival (May)
Bandon Music Festival (May)

Bantry Cinema
Bantry Masters of Tradition (August) - traditional music festival
Cork Jazz Festival (October)
Cork Opera House
Cork Theatre - Everyman Palace Theatre

Fastnet Short Film Festival (Schull, May)

Great Music in Irish Houses (June)

Harvest Moon Music Festival (Schull, September)
INEC - Ireland's National Events Centre (Killarney)
International Storytelling Festival (Cape Clear, September)

West Cork 200 Cycle Challenge (June)
West Cork Chamber Music Festival (Bantry, June/July)

West Cork Food Festival (Bantry, September)
West Cork Literary Festival (Bantry, July)
West Cork Music
What's On in Cork

Sheeps Head Attractions & Activities

Ahakista Regatta (first weekend in August)
Carbery Sailing - Ahakista

Ceol on the Coast (Easter Weekend - Kilcrohane village)
Darrens Kayaks - Durrus (personal tuiton)
Good Things Cafe - Durrus (Cookery School & Restaurant)
Heron Gallery & Cafe - Ahakista

Living The Sheeps Head Way - officlal local guide
The Sheeps Head Way - local guide

Bantry & Other West Coast Attractions/Activities

Bantry House & Gardens

Barleycove Beach - Crookhaven, Mizen Head

Barleycove Surf Camp - surfing lessons for adults and lessons & camp days for kids
Blarney Castle

Charles Fort - Kinsale

Cycle Hire - Nigel's Bike Shop, Bantry

Desmond Castle - Kinsale

Glengarriff Woods Nature Reserve
Horse Riding - Ballycumisk, Ballydehob (Mizen Head)
Ilnacullin - Garinish Island, Glengarriff
Killarney National Park

Lisselan Estate - including Henry Ford ancestral site, gardens, fishing & golf (Clonakilty)
Lough Hyne - marine nature reserve
Mizen Head Visitor Centre

Model Railway Village - Clonakilty
Sailing - sailing courses & day trips from Schull

Sea Kayaking - Lough Hyne area
Skellig Islands - boat tours to Skellig Michael & Small Skellig
Skibbereen Heritage Centre - Great Famine Commemoration Exhibition

West Cork Quad Adventures - cross country quad biking from Castletownshend (Skibbereen)

Whale Watching - boat trips from Union Hall

Museums & Galleries

Catherine Hammond Gallery - Glengarriff

Cork Butter Museum

Cork Public Museum

Doswell Gallery - Rosscarbery

Heron Gallery - Ahakista & Schull

International Museum of Wine - Desmond Castle, Kinsale

Lewis Glucksman Gallery - University College Cork

Mill Cove Gallery - Castletownbere, Beara Peninsula

The Morris Gallery - Skibbereen

The Lavit Gallery - Cork City

The Whitehouse Gallery - Kilcrohane

West Cork Arts Centre - Skibbereen