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Bantry House is a historic house with gardens in Bantry, County Cork, Ireland. Originally built in the early 18th century, it has been owned and occupied by the White family (formerly Earls of Bantry) since the mid-18th century. Opened to the public since the 1940s, the house, estate and gardens are a tourist destination in West Cork. [2]
A number of coastal fortifications were built in County Cork, Ireland, to defend the county's coastline, and in particular the strategic berths at Cork Harbour, Kinsale Harbour, Berehaven and Bantry Bay.
Bantry (Irish: Beanntraí) [l 1] is a barony in the west of County Cork in Ireland. [l 1] Patrick Weston Joyce said the name Beanntraí means "descendants of Beann [Ban]", a son of Conchobar mac Nessa; similarly for the Wexford barony of Bantry. [1] The barony borders the top end the southern shore of Bantry Bay. [2] On the opposite shore is ...
Whiddy Island (Irish: Oileán Faoide) [2] is an island near the head of Bantry Bay in Ireland. It is approximately 5.6 km (3.5 mi) long and 2.4 km (1.5 mi) wide. The topography comprises gently-rolling glacial till, with relatively fertile soil. [3]
Ballylickey or Ballylicky (Irish: Béal Átha Leice) [1] [2] is a village on the N71 national secondary road and Bantry Bay near Bantry, County Cork, Ireland. The Ouvane River flows into Bantry Bay at Ballylickey.
This is a list of historic houses in the Republic of Ireland which serves as a link page for any stately home or historic house in Ireland. County Carlow [ edit ]
Bantry (Irish: Beanntraí, meaning '(place of) Beann's people') is a town in the civil parish of Kilmocomoge in the barony of Bantry on the southwest coast of County Cork, Ireland. It lies in West Cork at the head of Bantry Bay , a deep-water gulf extending for 30 km (19 mi) to the west.
Keith Lamb/Patrick Bowe, A History of Gardening in Ireland, The Stationery Office, 1995 ISBN 0-7076-1666-2; Cork 365, Sean Beecher, The Collins Press 2005 ISBN 1-903464-92-7; Irish Gardens and Demesnes from 1830, Edward Malins and Patrick Bowe, Rizolli, New York 1980, ISBN 0-8478-0342-2; The lost demesnes of Bantry Bay, Nigel Everett, Hafod Press