Bantry Bed & Breakfast Accommodation

Seamount Farmhouse Bed & Breakfast Bantry Accommodation overlooking Bantry Bay in South West Ireland.  We welcome you to our Seventh  Generation Farmhouse B&B with magnificent views of Bantry Bay and mountains in West Cork

Situated 12 km west of Bantry in the heart of the Sheeps Head peninsula West Cork.  Ideal location for walking the Sheeps Head way, touring Beara Peninsula and Mizen Head.  Local tour guide Le Guide de Routard. 
Brittany Ferries and Michelin Guide Recommended. 

Complimentary tea/coffee and fresh scones served on arrival. 

Hill Walking Sheeps Head Peninsula

Hillside Walks are located 12km South West of Bantry o­n the shores of Bantry Bay.  Our hill walking holidays and B&B are situated in the heart of the Sheeps Head Peninsula with the Beara and Mizen Peninsulas to the north and south respectively.  This beautiful quite place is a world away from the rat race, it allows you to relax and unwind and is an ideal base for a walking holiday - the best way to explore o­ne of the least known peninsulas along the Irish coastline and enjoy its tranquility, beauty and rugged landscape lapped by the Atlantic Ocean.  There are few more beautifully located or more delightful walks in the whole of Ireland.

The Sheep's Head Way is a fully way marked 88km/55mile route and is ideal for self-guided walking with many loop walk facilities for those who wish to vary their route.  There are a number of historical and archeological monuments to be found amidst a spectacular landscape of mountains and sea.  You will also have the chance to encounter an array of rare wild flowers, view the dolphins in the bay and take some time to acquaint yourself with some interesting bird life.  The terrain varies as you progress along the route that usually goes out o­n the Bantry Bay side of the peninsula along a wide open rocky ridge with good vegetation cover.  However there are wet patches as you progress to the lighthouse at the end of the peninsula.  You return o­n the Dunmanus Bay side along gentler, low level farmland, moor and close knit villages.  The average length of the walks each day is between 15 and 22 km's with the highest point being 345m. Please note each walk can be tailored to suit your individual ability. 

Bantry Bay The Song

Come help me boys, to sing a song
And lilt a lively roundlay
As fast and free we boom along
And top the waves of Bantry Bay

A fair wind fills our flowing sail
But let it blow from where it may
We'll woo the breeze of brave and gale
With joyful hearts of Bantry Bay

Oh there are harbours made with hands
With sticks and stones with mud and clay
With piles and beams and iron hand
We've no such thing in Bantry Bay

We've fair Glengarriff silvery tide
We've grand Bearhaven where to today
The fleets of half the world might ride
With room to swing in Bantry Bay

Historic scenes come into view
As on we plough our water way
For chieftains bold and clansmen true
Were long long the lords of Bantry Bay

And well we hope the world may see
Ere many years have passed away
The sons of patriot ancestry
Again hold sway by Bantry Bay

So trim your sails ,and ease your sheets
And hoist your buntings bright and gay
Our trip has been a bunch of sweets
Hip Hip Hurrah for Bantry Bay
 

 

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