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Kinnagoe "prettiest place in
Ireland"
27.07.10
INISHOWEN has received
a big tourism boost after one of our hidden gems was
named 'prettiest place in Ireland' by Canada's
biggest selling newspaper.
A feature article published in the Globe and Mail
newspaper gives top billing to the rugged and remote
Kinnagoe Bay near Greencastle.
Under the headline 'One perfect day at Kinnagoe
Bay', the writer Dean Jobb puts the hideaway
location ahead of other beautiful destinations in
counties Kerry and Wicklow.
Jobb writes: We'll drive about 1,500 km on this
three-week Irish holiday. On the rugged Dingle
Peninsula, opposite the famous Ring of Kerry, we'll
see sunlight explode onto green hills shrouded by
blankets of dark clouds. We'll cross the barren
spine of the Caha Mountains on the southwest coast
and stroll the manicured perfection of the
Powerscourt Estate near Dublin. Beautiful places,
all of them, but none match one perfect day at
Kinnagoe Bay."
The writer is clearly bemused at the fact that
Kinnagoe Bay (or Kinnego Bay) doesn't appear on any
of the maps they've bought, until they get one
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When they finally reach
it, Jobb describes Kinnagoe Bay to his newspaper's
million plus readers: "Rocks on the beach are
sculpted by wind, water and time to resemble
breaking waves and beached whales.
"A postcard-perfect beach stretches out below,
framed by the mountain we've just conquered.
"We walk down the beach to what looks like a
collection of sculptures. Wind and water have
fashioned large steel-blue rocks into the shapes of
breaking waves and beached whales. In the distance,
a darker outcrop has been hollowed out to form a
towering ring of stone.
"We dawdle for hours, soaking in the strange, raw
power of the place. Perhaps this is what English
writer Sacheverell Sitwell was thinking of when he
described Ireland as “this green country on the edge
of the world, with nothing beyond it.”
To read the full travel feature published on Friday,
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