Bungalow bliss in west Cork
South Reen is a little-known coastal pearl, out at the end of narrow roads from Union Hall and Glandore, out past Reen pier which in turn faces Castletownshend. South Reen isn’t on the road to anywhere, it is the end of the road, with the shingly cove of Blind Harbour as its coda.
It has been home to Chinese qigong (similar to tai chi) practitioner Ann Shaw for 22 years, and she runs a farm here — South Reen Farm — on organic principles. Some years ago, Ann acquired an adjacent 1970s bungalow, and fully made it over to the property now seen here, used as a homecoming residential retreat for healing and teaching ancient Chinese arts such as qigong. Students come here from Ireland, Europe and beyond, and the place itself probably exerts as much of a positive experience as the courses run here.
