Perfect place for those harbouring seaside dreams

Ballycotton's ‘Inn by The Harbour’ is a stunningly set bar, restaurant and seven guest rooms, with a 130-year history marked by the intervention of two men in clerical habits over a 110-year time span.

One of the ‘priests’ was the actor Marlon Brando, dressed in dark soutane and Roman collar, during the filming of the thwarted 1996 movie Divine Rapture which took over Ballycotton for a summer,keeping unholy company over pints in the Inn with Johnny Depp and others.

The seaside gem and business, just above the pier in the East Cork fishing village has seen every coming and going in the community, and over the seas, since it first opened as an hotel in 1886, despite opposition at the time from a local parish priest.