Allihies (Irish: Na hAilichí) is a coastal village in the west of County Cork, Ireland. It is located on the western end of the Beara Peninsula between Cod's Head and Dursey Head above Ballydonegan Bay . County Cork (Contae Chorcaà in Irish) is the most southwesterly and the largest of the modern counties of Ireland. ...
Up to the 1930s, it was a copper-mining site, see the Allihies Copper Mine Museum Web Site. The Village comprises three pubs, a post office and a general store. It's correct name is Cluin but this is seldom used. The primary tourist attraction is the two sandy beaches created by mine spoil (and the pubs!)
The mine Museum project has run into difficulties, due to a third party claim of ownership on a piece of land to be used in their museum. A certain degree of local antipathy exists towards the museum also.
Allihies – with two shops, a post office and four public houses – is typical of the type of self-contained Irish village that was once found throughout the country.
Indeed, Allihies (population: 650) has done well to survive, as it has suffered more than most villages: during the 1800s it was a thriving copper mining region, an activity that has long since declined.
Allihies resilience is probably due to its extraordinary scenery, located on the Ring of Beara and overlooking Ballydonegan Bay, a seaport from where the copper ore was once exported.
See Allihies, away out far on the Beara Peninsula of West Cork, away out where the map turns brown and where the seas are greenest, especially on the sap tide of a rising spring, and forget all mortal thoughts entirely.
He will salute you with the kind of salute which is a passport into Allihies, a townlet caught in the crooked elbow of the mountains.
In O'Neill's, where you meet this wise man, a flamboyant painter captured The Last Sunset of the Nineties over Allihies, an aptly copper orb sinking serenely into the waves that are running in in perfect synch to the shoreline a few hundred metres away.
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