On the morning of my stay, I ventured on a wettish walk into adjacent Gougane Barra National Park, which is Ireland’s first National Park, having opened in 1964. Remote and unspoiled ...

Last week, Ireland's planning board ... would be built 2 km away from the famous St. Finbarr's Oratory, in Gougane Barra, a single-cell Celtic Revival style Roman Catholic church, built in ...

“Gougane Barra in Co Cork, Ireland, has been a retreat from the cruel world and a spot for quiet contemplation — since St Finbarr established an island monastery on the lake during the sixth ...

one of Ireland's most visited tourism destinations. A Múscraí community group has won its campaign against a planned wind farm overlooking the Gougane Barra beauty spot in west Cork, it has emerged.

The wind turibines proposed for the slopes above Gougane Barra are almost three times as ... turbines would be almost three times higher than Ireland’s tallest building, the Elysian Tower ...

In “Ireland the Best 2018, the Insider's Guide to Ireland”, published by Collins, the Gougane Barra Hotel was described as "the purest hospitality you could ever imagine". Neil and Katy also ...

Neil Lucey is in reflective mood as he looks across the lake at Gougane Barra towards the blackened rocky mountainside and recalls how the blaze that engulfed the steep slopes and turned the water ...

The new tourist, definedIn her book, Paige McClanahan shows that as tourism has evolved, so have tourists. What to know about island hopping in HawaiiJumping from island to island on one trip ...

Sinn Féin Ireland South European elections candidate ... over the extensive felling of Japanese larch proposed for Gougane Barra. “I recognise that Coillte do a good job and I’m not disputing ...