Eagles are the jewel in Glengarriff’s glittering crown

Glorious Glengarriff and Garinish, the ‘near island’,can indeed be called gems in that they are precious, more precious with every passing year, trenchant survivors of that classical Irish scenery beloved of Victorians, trees and mountains reflected on still brown waters.

Today, in places, it is still without a single house to belie that world where timelessness prevails. The bay islands are the same now as when I first saw them as a child, and in my 20s, and in middle age.