Driving Directions to Inish Beg, Baltimore,
County Cork Ireland

From Cork
Includes crossing on the boat to Cork (Ringaskiddy) or arriving by place at Cork Airport.
Follow signs to N71 (West Cork). The N71 (marked in red on above map) will take you to Skibbereen via Bandon, Clonakilty, Rosscarbery, Connonagh, Leap, etc. (55 miles approx.)
If you are coming through Cork on the ring road system this is very straightforward.
However, if you are coming from either the ferry or airport, be sure to keep a sharp eye out for road signs leading to the N71, especially at Five Mile Bridge, as they can be a little confusing (the connection route to the N71 is the R613 at this junction).
From Skibbereen take the Baltimore Road.
As you leave Skibbereen set your trip meter.
We are 3.7 miles from the last roundabout at Skibbereen (Lidl and VW Auto Dealership are located on the roundabout) on the Baltimore Road (noted as R595 on the map above).
At about 2.7 miles you will go through a double 'S' bend and see 'The Old Court Inn', and about 1 mile from that you will see a large sign on your right for Kileena House. Just BEFORE the sign is a little lane off to your right -- this leads to Inish Beg across a bridge.
Follow the lane onto the island and up through the pillars market 'Inish Beg Private' and come up to the main house by following the driveway. We will meet you there.
Journey time, in average conditions, from the Cork ferry is 1 hr 40 mins, 1 hr 30 mins from the airport. Summer traffic can lengthen journey time considerably. It is worth breaking your journey at Clonakilty and looking around town.
Check-in time at Inish Beg is between 16.00 and 19.00 hours.
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“The Boat House at Inish Beg, designed by architect Tony Cohu, has become a famous piece of modernist Irish architecture, sitting proud out on the water on the Inish Beg estate, Frank Lloyd Wright meets Glen Murcott on an island off the coast of – where else?- West Cork. Aside from the Boat House, there are lots of other superbly comfortable cottages to rent in Paul and Georgie Keane’s complex of rental properties, and there is also the terrifically delicious Inish Beg honey to be enjoyed”
- John & Sally McKenna's Bridgestone Irish Food Guide 2007
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