Cape Clear: A Night on the Southernmost Gaeltacht Island
Cork, Ireland
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Cape Clear: A Night on the Southernmost Gaeltacht Island
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Cape Clear is the southernmost inhabited island in Ireland and a Gaeltacht island where Irish is still the everyday language, with summer colleges bringing students to learn it. That is the reason to stay a night rather than take the day boat: the island only sounds like itself once the ferry has gone. There are stone forts and holy wells on it from long before the language question arose, and boats run out from the island to Fastnet Rock, the last piece of Ireland the emigrant ships passed.
Required Activities
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Stay at least one night on Cape Clear Island, Ireland's southernmost Gaeltacht, reached by ferry from Baltimore all year, or from Schull in summer
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of 4
Take the Fastnet Rock Lighthouse cruise from Cape Clear, passing Ireland's most southerly point
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of 4
Pick up a few words of Irish from islanders — Irish is still the everyday working language here
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of 4
Find the promontory fort at Dún an Óir, the Napoleonic signal tower and the island's early Christian sites
Stay at least one night on Cape Clear Island, Ireland's southernmost Gaeltacht, reached by ferry from Baltimore all year, or from Schull in summer
Take the Fastnet Rock Lighthouse cruise from Cape Clear, passing Ireland's most southerly point
Pick up a few words of Irish from islanders — Irish is still the everyday working language here
Find the promontory fort at Dún an Óir, the Napoleonic signal tower and the island's early Christian sites
Before you go
Fastnet Rock lighthouse cruises run from April to October; the Baltimore ferry runs all year, the Schull one in summer.
Ferries to Cape Clear go from Baltimore and Schull and are cancelled in heavy weather; the Fastnet cruise and the island's few beds run mainly in the summer season, so book ahead.
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