Denise Hall: Pupils learn from the area’s history

Q&A: Marie Murphy: Throughout the long march of their history, the people of West Cork’s Beara peninsula have proved as enduring as their brooding granite mountains.

According to tradition, Berehaven got its name from a Spanish princess, named Beara.

Indeed, there is a small strand just outside Castletownbere named for her, and it is reputed to be the spot where she landed, to begin her new life.