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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.
Bantry Bay is a ria, a bay formed from a drowned river valley as a result of a relative rise in sea level.The bay is a deep (approx 40 metres in the middle) and large natural bay, with one of the longest inlets in southwest Ireland, bordered on the north by Beara Peninsula, which separates Bantry Bay from Kenmare Bay.
Bere Island or Bear Island (Irish: Oiléan Béarra, although officially called An tOileán Mór meaning "the big island") [2] is an island in Bantry Bay off the Beara Peninsula in County Cork, Ireland. It spans roughly 10 km x 3 km, with an area of 17.68 km 2 and, [3] [4] as of the 2022 census, had a population of 218 people. [1]
This is a sortable table of the townlands in the barony of Bantry, County Cork, Ireland. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Duplicate names occur where there is more than one townland with the same name in the barony, and also where a townland is known by two alternative names.
Chapel Island and Little, Clashduff, Clais Dhubh (dark hollow) Clonee, Cluain Fhia ( meadow of the deer) Cloonygorman, Cluain Ui Ghormain (Gorman's meadow) Close, Clos (enclosure) Cooleenlamane, Cuilin Lomanach (bare remote place) Coomacroobeg, Cum an Chrubaigh (field of the hoofed animal) Coomanore North and South, Cum an Iubhair (valley of ...
Waves crash onto the shore in Bantry Bay, on the southwest coast of Ireland, on Jan. 24, 2025, as storm Eowyn brings winds over 100 mph to the U.K. and Ireland.