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Place: Carbery’s Hundred Isles

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The numbers living on Heir, or Inis Ui Drisceoil, are far exceeded by Cape Clear and Sherkin Island but its number surpasses that of neighbouring Long Island where just 10 people live.

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Free from Covid-19: Life springs eternal on Heir
If the virus is not there now then it’s not getting there: Simple as that. Only four of Carbery’s Hundred Isles can claim to be populated, with Heir Island off Cunnamore Head one of them.
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The Islands of Ireland: From Inishbeg to Ike
Dan MacCarthy, John Treacy, and Con Collins discuss cycling and Munster's great road routes

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Dan MacCarthy, John Treacy, and Con Collins discuss cycling and Munster's great road routes

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Rush of interest in Cork farms

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Old-style baking is his bread and butter
Fine grazing land on offer at lower price

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Fine grazing land on offer at lower price
Coastal west Cork holding boasts qood quality land and a couple of islands for that welcome retreat

TWO islands and a farm? And all for €350,000 — not bad for west Cork.

Thu, 23 Jun, 2011

Lisheen farm price is €1.5m

ONE and a half million euro is the asking price for this 26 acre farm at Ardnagroherey, near Church Cross, Skibbereen, and while it might make some farmers gasp, locals are a little blasé about elevated West Cork prices.

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