Qualla: Sheep's Head https://qualla.com/sheep-s-head en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/0/v/sheep-s-head-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Sheep's Head https://qualla.com/sheep-s-head Sheep's Head: Introduction https://qualla.com/sheep-s-head/ Photo credit CC BY-SA 4.0. Three peninsulas reach west from County Cork into the Atlantic like fingers spread on a table: Mizen at the south, Beara at the north, and Sheep's Head, narrow and low, running between them. It is the smallest of the three by some distance - in places only a couple of miles wide between Bantry Bay and Dunmanus Bay - and from the spine of its ridge you can stand and see saltwater on either hand at the same moment. In Irish it is also called Muntervary. The English name has the long-suffering simplicity that crops up wherever sheep have outnumbered people for a few centuries.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/0/v/sheep-s-head-wp/gc0v-sheeps-head-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Sheep's Head: Three Walkers and a Trail https://qualla.com/sheep-s-head/ Photo credit NicholasH, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Sheep's Head Way runs eighty-eight kilometres around the peninsula from Bantry to the headland and back, divided into eight stages, each representing roughly half a day on foot. It opened in stages from the late 1990s and grew out of an unusual collaboration: Tom Whitty, an A...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/0/v/sheep-s-head-wp/gc0v-sheeps-head-three-walkers-and-a-trail.mp3 0:06 2 full Sheep's Head: Older Than the Path https://qualla.com/sheep-s-head/ Photo credit Joe King, CC BY-SA 3.0. The fields the walkers cross are full of older marks. Around Dunbeacon at the eastern end stands a Bronze Age stone circle, and the surrounding parishes carry a quiet density of ringforts, holy wells, fulachta fiadh - the prehistoric cooking pits that mark wherever Iron Age commu...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/0/v/sheep-s-head-wp/gc0v-sheeps-head-older-than-the-path.mp3 0:06 3 full Sheep's Head: Three Villages, One Cheese https://qualla.com/sheep-s-head/ Photo credit User: (WT-shared) Plug at wts wikivoyage, Public domain. The peninsula carries three small settlements along its road. Durrus, six miles from Bantry, has been one of the official staging points on the Wild Atlantic Way driving route since the route was promoted in 2014, and is home to Durrus Cheese - a washed-rind farmhouse cheese firs...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/0/v/sheep-s-head-wp/gc0v-sheeps-head-three-villages-one-cheese.mp3 0:06 4 full Sheep's Head: Rare Plants and a Quiet Award https://qualla.com/sheep-s-head/ Photo credit CC BY-SA 3.0. The Sheep's Head heathland holds two plants that survive in only a handful of places elsewhere in Ireland: Viola lactea, the pale dog violet, and Tuberaria guttata, the spotted rock-rose. Choughs - those acrobatic red-billed coastal crows - nest on the cliffs along with fulmars a...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/0/v/sheep-s-head-wp/gc0v-sheeps-head-rare-plants-and-a-quiet-award.mp3 0:06 5 full Sheep's Head: Bone Clocks and the Drowned Novelist https://qualla.com/sheep-s-head/ Photo credit Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sheep's Head turns up in David Mitchell's 2014 novel The Bone Clocks, where the final section is set on the headland; Mitchell named one of his recurring characters, Mo Muntervary, after the Irish name for the place. Of more sombre note, the novelist J. G. Farrell - born in Liver...

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