A weekend in Castletownbere offers perspective on wind energy

Given the exposure of the landscape to the elements should vast areas of Cork and Kerry, and other coastal areas, be considered a national resource to meet our future energy needs?

Wind turbines in Ballybane, Drimoleague, Cork. Picture: David Creedon

Passing by the Dzogchen Buddhist Retreat beyond Castletownbere nestled high on the cliffs it’s easy to see how the towering Caha, Miskish and Brandon Group of mountains jutting out in headlands into the Atlantic comprising the Beara and Dingle penisulas offer us the perfect physical environment for a chance of perspective.

Perspective comes in many forms; our physical size versus the features of the landscape, an endless ocean and rugged peaks.