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IT’S a gentle irony that the second wave of hippies to West Cork should choose the Coole Mountain area in which to live.

This remote valley behind Dunmanway has been a sort of counter-culture capital, but there has been a dwindling in the number of ‘crusties’ in recent years.

A quiet and ultra low density area, it doesn’t have the high prices associated with the coast and it is probably why it became so popular in the first place.