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Glyn Egan is the eighth generation to be farming in the Kerry mountains

Glyn Egan with his father John.

Glyn Egan, who many on social media may know as the “Sheep Shepherd”, is a full-time sheep farmer in the Kerry mountains near the Cork border, close to Gougane Barra.

Alongside his father John, the 33-year-old farms 720 acres, and has 120 acres of forestry which was planted back in the late 2000s.