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Ballylickey

Eat the Sheep's Head Way
 

Drive out of Bantry on the coast road, and you’ll find Ballylickey, a village that skirts the shores of Bantry Bay

Taste West Cork on a plate at Manning’s Emporium.

Manning’s is renowned for its wide range of local foods served in an atmospheric café and food shop. It’s also the base for Culture Kitchen‘s foodie tours across West Cork’s three peninsulas.

Kayak from your campsite at Eagle Point, a friendly place where you’ll get all the advice you need about what’s on and what’s not to be missed while you’re here!

You can also join the locals diving off the pier at Snámh on a fine day. It’s a great spot from which to start exploring the Borlin, Mealagh and Kealkill valleys.

The village lies between Bantry and Glengarriff, so you can easily explore the Sheep’s Head and Beara peninsulas, with their fine walking routes and mountain trails, from here.

You’ll find a small but well-stocked supermarket in Ballylickey too.

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August 2025
Masters of Tradition 2024
Aug 20 - 24 2025

Masters of Tradition: A Traditional Music Festival

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Bantry House B&B

The Sheep’s Head is a peninsula rich in history and you’ll find traces of its past all along the Sheep’s Head Way walking route.

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Carbery Sailing

Carbery Sailing

At Carbery Sailing on the Sheep’s Head peninsula, we offer RYA-approved sailing courses and chartered sailing trips along Ireland’s beautiful Atlantic coastline Our sailing school is based in Ahakista on West Cork’s Sheep’s Head peninsula – a European Destination of Excellence. All of our sailing courses take place on our Hallberg Rassy 46 yacht ‘Merlin’. […]

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Seaview House Hotel

Seaview House Hotel

Welcome to Seaview House Hotel, a delightful 4-star country house hotel set in private and well-tended grounds. Seaview is ideally-located in the quiet village of Ballylickey beside Bantry in the heart of West Cork. West Cork’s wonderful countryside is all around you here. Meanwhile the historic market town of Bantry is just 4 kilometres away. […]

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This project has been supported by Cork County Council & the LEADER programme under the Rural Development Programmes 2007-13 and 2017-2021.
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