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All aboard: Buoy your spirits with a lighthouse visit in Ballycotton
All aboard: Buoy your spirits with a lighthouse visit in Ballycotton
It only takes 15 minutes to get to Ballycotton Island by boat 

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Islands of Ireland: Gulls, rabbits — and a blowhole — on Ballycotton Island Small
Islands of Ireland: Gulls, rabbits — and a blowhole — on Ballycotton Island Small
The blowhole is evocatively called Thunder Hole or Poll na Chaora and Poll na Caoin (Hole of the Sheep)

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Blasket Islands provide evidence of trouble in paradise
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Just beyond the breaking surf at the White Strand on the Great Blasket island, seals were standing up in the water to get a better look at us humans. 

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