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Historical Sites & Tours West Cork Ireland
Ballydehob
- Gurtnagrough Folk Museum, open daily
Bantry
- 1796 French Armada Exhibition
- Prehistoric monuments, megalithic standing stones, a 5000 year-old passage grave, a 12th century church ruin, and a 14th century O'Driscoll castle cannonaded in the early 1600's
Mizen Head
Rosscarbery
- Castle Salem
- Michael Collins Memorial Centre, site of Michael Collins birthplace, located in Woodfield (between Clonakilty & Rosscarbery)
- Rosscarbery & District Historical Society
Sherkin Island
- 15th Century Franciscan Friary & ruins of O'Driscoll Castle, Dun-na-Long
Skibbereen
- Skibbereen Heritage Centre, featuring the Great Famine Commemoration Exhibition and the Lough Hyne Visitor Centre
- Skibbereen Historical Society
- Skibbereen Historical Walks
- The Skibbereen Trail, self-guided tour offering an overview of the town during the Great Famine
Union Hall
- Ceim Hill Museum, a 500 year old farm house with an open hearth. The private collection housed here has artefacts from Neolithic times, Old and New Stone Age, Bronze and Iron Ages. The visitor can see old farm tools as well as lace, linen and West Cork cloaks. For history enthusiasts there is a "War of Independence" room.
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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”