The Ring of Kerry:
The Ring of Kerry, along the perimeter of the Iveragh Peninsula, is one of Ireland’s single most popular tourist routes. With every turn of the road, you will see spectacular coastal and mountain views. Along the Ring, visitors can stop at any number of picturesque Irish towns and villages for hiking, dining, or simply a bit of sight-seeing and exploring. The Ring of Kerry offers all the best nature has to offer in one peninsula: mountains, seascapes, coasts and glens, and hillsides dotted with sheep and cattle.
The Skelligs:
An Atlantic Ocean Island, 8 miles off the coast, with world-famous seabird colonies, magnificent scenery and the world's finest example of early Christian Monastic architecture on a cliff-top, 200 metres (700 feet) above the Ocean. In recent years it has been made a Unecso World Heritage Site. In Skellig waters you can also see seals and in season, even basking sharks and dolphins. Enjoy the puffins who, in season, will scarcely step aside to let you pass. Listen to the reving noise of the storm petrels that accompany you every step of the way. Daily boat trips are available to Skellig Rock, weather permitting.
Fishing:
Valentia is a top angling spot on the southwest coast of Ireland. Enjoy fishing around the Skellig Islands and Puffin Island, in St Finian's Bay or Dingle Bay, at Culloo Head (on Valentia) and near the Blaskets. The following species can be caught (if you are lucky!) cod, pollock, ling, coalfish, whiting, haddock, mackerel, garfish, pouting, plaice, ballan wrasse, cuckoo wrasse, grey and red gurnard, seabass, mullet, skate, ray-thornback, conger eel, dogfish, bullhuss and blueshark (July – September).
Golf:
Waterville Golf Course is a short drive from the property. Golf at Waterville is a mystical experience – the beauty of classic links land, surrounded by the sea, yet forever challenged and shaped by the elements. Over 100 years old, Waterville is rated among the top 5 courses in Ireland and the top 20 links courses in the world.
Links golf combines sand dunes gorse and native grasses, firm fairways, sod faced bunkers and subtle putting surfaces all intertwined by the ever changing weather.
