Launched in spring 2014, the Wild Atlantic Way is a 2,500 km coastal route that invites the visitor to explore Ireland’s dramatic western seaboard.
Flagged as ‘the world’s longest coastal drive’, thanks to the many headlands and inlets that beg to be investigated along the way, it aims to highlight the most dramatic landmarks and attractions while also making it easier to find the interesting little out of the way places that might otherwise be by-passed.
It can be joined at any point and is divided into five sections, the first being Donegal in the north, with the other four (Donegal-Mayo; Mayo-Clare; Clare-Kerry; Kerry-Cork) leading you right down the Atlantic seaboard to the southern counties of Cork and Kerry.
A simple route map is available on discoverireland.ie where full information on each section is given, including activities and key ‘discovery points’.
The very distinctive bright blue ‘wave’ road signs make it virtually impossible to get lost - and we have plenty of suggestions for the best places to eat, drink and stay along the way, many of which are run by people who know the west coast back to front and will help visitors to find a genuine sense of discovery along this beautiful and fascinating coastline.
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Charleville, Co. Cork
Cheeses
Tom and Lena Biggane have been making cheese on their farm near Charleville since 2001 and their highly regarded hard gouda-style goats cheese, Clonmore, was developed from recipes passed on to them by a Dutch neighbour.
It is made only from the heat- ...
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Frank and Gudrun Shinnick have been making cheese on their farm near Fermoy since 1996, and now produce a range of eight cows’ milk cheeses varying from soft to mature hard cheeses - all produced from the milk of Frank’s herd of pedigree Ho ...
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Kanturk, Co. Cork
Cheeses / Dairy
Kanturk is in the Duhallow region of County Cork, which is famed for its clean environment and rich grasslands - just the perfect requirements for the Burns family’s wonderful Ardrahan, a pungent semi-soft cows’ milk cheese, which the ...
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White Church, Co. Cork
Cheeses
Brothers Dan and John Hegarty have been making this traditional cloth-bound cheddar on their North Cork family farm since 2000, and their first mature cheese came onto the market in 2002.
Made in 20kg wheels, using pasteurised cows’ milk from th ...
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Portumna, Co. Galway
Cheeses
East Galway cheesemaker Marion Roeleveld is well known for her excellent gouda-style Killeen Farmhouse Cheese. She trained as a cheesemaker in the Netherlands before coming to Ireland and has assisted in the development of other cheeses as well as buil ...
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Ballinspittle, Co. Cork
Bakery / Baking/Bakery / Café / Deli / Speciality Store
Just a few miles inland from the beaches and surfers of Garrettstown, you’ll find the village of Ballinspittle and the Diva Boutique Bakery. Shannen Keane also found this village a few years back and named her enterprise after a coffee house in h ...
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Midleton, Co. Cork
Meat & Game
Slow Food farmers Martin and Noreen Conroy are renowned for the free range pork, bacon and sausages that they produce, with the help of their five children, on their small mixed farm near Midleton - and for which they received a very well-deserved Euro ...
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Shanagarry, Co. Cork
Fish & Seafood
Shanagarry Smoked Salmon - more often referred to as Bill Casey’s smoked salmon - has been gracing the tables at nearby Ballymaloe House and other discerning dining destinations since the 1980s.
Slow Food member Bill Casey uses only salmon organ ...
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Ballyhoura, Co. Cork
Fruit & Veg
Very much with the zeitgeist for wild and foraged foods, Lucy Deegan and Mark Cribbin’s enterprising north Cork company not only grows a unique range of speciality mushrooms - comprising everything from shiitake and oyster mushrooms to velvet pip ...
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Castletownbere, Co. Cork
Herbs / Others
Inspired by a successful venture in similarly rugged conditions of pristine sea water in Cornwall, Michael and Aileen O’Neill recognised the potential for producing this superb natural product on the Beara Peninsula in West Cork, and Irish Atlant ...
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