Bere Island or Bear Island (Irish: Oiléan Béarra, although officially called An tOileán Mór meaning "the big island") is an island in Bantry Bay off the...
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main islands in the bay are Bere Island and Whiddy Island. Bere Island is located near the entrance to the bay. On the north side of the island is Berehaven...
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Look up bere in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bere may refer to: Bere, Botswana, a village Béré, Burkina Faso, a city Béré Department, containing the...
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between including Allihies, Ardgroom, Adrigole, and Eyeries. Bere Island and Dursey Island can be reached by a short trip by ferry or cable car respectively...
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Roancarrigmore Lighthouse, Bantry Bay, Ardnakinna Lighthouse, Bere Island, and Rerrin Village, Bere Island. The wheelchair seen in the film is the Days Healthcare...
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peninsulas: Beara, Sheep's Head and Mizen Head. Islands which lie off West Cork include Bere Island, Sherkin Island and Cape Clear. The area's pre-history is...
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Bere Island GFC is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based on Bere Island in Cork, Ireland. Its Gaelic Football team participates in competitions organized...
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China and Russia Bears Island (Tasmania), Australia Bere Island (or Bear Island), an island in Cork County, Ireland Bear Island (novel), a novel by Alistair...
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List of islands in the Atlantic Ocean List of islands of England List of islands of Ireland List of islands of Scotland List of Orkney islands List of...
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Stone Enclosure, Maughanaclea Signal Tower, Tilickatina (see towers on Bere Island, Kilcrohane, Mizen Peninsula and Cape Clear) Ballynacallagh Killowen...
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windsurfing. The sailing bases were in Lawrence Cove on Bere Island County Cork, Collanmore Island in Clew Bay, and the club's original base (founded in...
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its presence at the forts and batteries around Castletownbere and on Bere Island (together known as Berehaven). Berehaven remained under British sovereignty...
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Bere, pronounced "bear," is a six-row barley cultivated mainly on 5-15 hectares of land in Orkney, Scotland. It is also grown in Shetland, Caithness and...
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Great Island (Irish: An tOileán Mór) is an island in Cork Harbour, at the mouth of the River Lee and close to the city of Cork, Ireland. The largest town...
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part of the Beara division - Castletownbere, Adrigole, Urhan, Garnish, Bere Island and Glengarriff. It has no senior football team so the only representative...
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Wild Atlantic Way (category Tourism regions of the island of Ireland)
on the Beara Peninsula Bere Island Cape Clear Caherdaniel Derrynane beach Mountain Stage Viewpoint, Kerry Mountain Garnish Island in Glengarriff The ruined...
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HMS Vidette transported Spike Island Republican Prisoners to Bere Island Internment Camp in 1921. *Refer Spike Island’s Republican Prisoners, 1921 by...
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Raerainn) is the main village on Bere Island, within County Cork in Ireland. The village is located on the north of the island and is next to the sheltered...
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Martello tower (section British Virgin Islands)
Bidadari Island was also known as Pulau Sakit (Sick Island) as it housed a leper colony during the 17th century. More recently, the island came to be...
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Island (Irish: Baoi Bhéarra or Oileán Baoi) lies at the southwestern tip of the Beara Peninsula in the west of County Cork in Ireland. Dursey Island is...
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Chapel Island Little Commissioners, 3rd Rpt, p.6 Whiddy E Division Commissioners Third Rept, p.7 Bere E Division (excluding Fourteen Islands) "Inis Fearn...
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After a causeway opened in 2001, she was laid up, until acquired by Bere Island Ferries in 2003. Eilean Na H-Oige is a small bow-loading landing craft...
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sheltered inlet on the north side of Bere Island, West Cork, Ireland, to the west of the village of Rerrin. One of Bere Island's ferry services operates from...
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Spike Island (Irish: Inis Píc) is an island of 103 acres (42 ha) in Cork Harbour, Ireland. Originally the site of a monastic settlement, the island is dominated...
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Head Islands Ballycotton Island Bere Island Cape Clear Island Capel Island Carbery's Hundred Isles Fastnet Rock Dursey Island Garinish Great Island Heir...
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and third largest on the island of Ireland. At the 2022 census, it had a population of 224,004. The city centre is an island between two channels of the...
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appear in very many place names. The Beara Peninsula, Bear barony and Bere Island are not named for the mammal; the name is believed to have the same root...
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Sherkin Island, historically called Inisherkin (Irish: Inis Arcáin), lies southwest of County Cork in Ireland alongside other islands of Roaringwater...
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of Rathmore and the Islands, the southernmost parish in Ireland. It is the main ferry port to Sherkin Island, Cape Clear Island and the eastern side...
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to a standstill before escaping by sea to Beare Island (in Irish, Oiléan Béarra, now called Bere Island), and thence to Spain. Conn restored Conaire and...
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