Cork: Finding heaven amid the sparkling sea of Sheep's Head

TIP OF SHEEP’S HEAD, WEST CORK

LEAVING the car beside Laharandota Lough, our Trailhead, we walk towards Kilcrohane, passing a smaller lough on the left. At an iron shed and slab bearing a fáilte sign, we take the byroad going right, sign-posted The Signal Tower.

It climbs steeply and, after some houses, becomes a wide, level track like a turf road, passing another shed. It branches left, while we continue toward the backbone of the peninsula and the Sheep’s Head Way fingerpost ahead. Fingerposts guide us over Ballyroon Mountain to the Tooreen Turning Point where we return to our trailhead via the road.