First paying visitors to the Foggy Hill arrived in 2006

FARMER Muiris O’Donoghue is also involved in Valentia Island’s car-ferry service. Along with four other families on the island, he and his wife have a 20% share in the business, which was started in 1996.

That project involved building a new pier at Valentia and modifying the one on the mainland, at Reenard, as well as purchasing a vessel in Holland. The business employs seven people in the summer and two in the winter. He says “It is kind of unusual to have five separate families being able to stay together, and work together, for so long.”

Meanwhile, his Geokaun Mountain project is entering a second phase of development.