Our Tours - Slea Head Minibus Tour

Our Slea head drive minibus tour will visit Dunbeg fort excavated in 1977. Dunbeg was a promonitory fort built on a sheer cliff. It consists of four lines of banks and 5 fosses and an inner dry stone wall. There is also a souterrain (underground passage) that runs from just inside the entrance to the second bank from the rampart it is 54 feet long built of dry stone walls roofed with large slabs. It dates back to at least 580 BC

The Famine Cottage was built in the early 19th century of mudstone. It tells the story of life in Ireland around the time of the famine. They also give working Sheepdog demonstrations by arrangement

Beehive huts, these date mostly from the early Christian era. There are many of these dotted around Fahan. Which was once named the city of Fahan. The Beehive huts were used for workers on the land and pilgrims to and from Mount Brandon they were used for resting and waiting for good sea weather to go to Skellig Michael

The Blasket Island Interpretive Centre is well worth a visit where you can find lots of information relating to the Blasket Islands and life on the Blasket Islands. There is also information about the Gaelic language and authors who lived there until the evacuation in 1953

The Gallarus Oratory is an excellent example of dry stone corbelling dated around the 9th century. It's name suggest a house for foreigners ie pilgrims. As the walls Rise each level closes in a little until they meet at the top and are capped off with a large stone. It's so well built it still dry after all these years.