About Us

The Heron's Cove™ was built over forty years ago on the site of an old farmhouse. Established in 1985 as The Heron's Cove™ Irish Restaurant and B&B, it was destroyed by a fire in 1995 and was rebuilt

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completely with all the modern standards of safety and building. Luckily much was saved including the cheesedish collection, which Sue has been gathering for 35 years. Other collections include John Verling Pottery formerly in Ballydehob, cruet Sets (salt, pepper and mustard sets), Jugs, China Jelly Moulds and a new love is china sauce tureens (like large soup tureens but small). Local artists' work is another reason for collecting (the family call it 'hoarding!), but I am running out of wall space.

The comfortable bedrooms at The Heron's Cove™ are all ensuite and equipped with tea/coffee tray, direct dial telephone, television with satellite and video channels as well as Irish television

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channels, hairdryer, mini hifi for radio and CDs and electric blanket. Double Rooms have a double (5') bed and a single (3') bed with orthopaedic mattresses, the Family Room has a double bed and two single beds. There is a small ensuite room without seaview, which has two single beds. Rates include Full Irish breakfast.

The rooms are comfortable and stylish. The house has central heating and an open fire. All rates includes a full Irish breakfast. Peace and quietness are our aim. The tide comes and goes in the harbour twice a day with a range of 5m. giving a natural rhythm to the day, but there is plenty of entertainment and activities locally too in season. It is very quiet in the winter, which has its own charm. We rarely see snow and only occasionally have frost - plenty of winter gales and rain with warm sunny 'pet' days interspersed.

West Cork, Ireland would not be the same without its Irish pubs. In Goleen there are four, only 100m (300yds) from The Heron's Cove. The Lobster Pot, hosts: Anne and Finbarr Coughlan, Denny's, hosts: Denny O'Meara and his daughters, Norma's, host: Norma Sheehan and The Fastnet, hosts: Martin and Bridget Whooley.

Hill, beach and byways walking is a pleasure round the Mizen. Apart from our busy summer season from mid-July to mid-August, solitude and harmony with nature are our greatest blessing. The sound of the birds and the ocean are predominant.

Visit Mizen Head Signal Station at Ireland's most southwesterly point, a must-see experience, Brow Head with its Napoleonic Signal Tower (used by Lloyds, Reuters and Marconi as well, Crookhaven with its safe harbour and 'honey-pot' village, Schull Planetarium and Bantry House, still owned by ancestors of the First Earl of Bantry.. Tour the Mizen, Sheep's Head and Beara Peninsulas. Walk the Sheepshead and Beara Ways. Walk and cycle the Mizen hills and byroads.

In Goleen, Schull and Ballydehob, Skibbereen, Durrus and Bantry there are many interesting individual shops - very few chains come this far west.

Shop at The Spinning Wheel in Glengarriff and Quill's in Glengarriff and Kenmare and John Field's Supermarket, in Skibbereen.

Not forgetting our own emporia in Goleen - Dermot Sheehan MCC, our local County Councillor, Estate Agent and The Goleen Grocer; Breda Buckley's Post Office and QuikPick; The Local Art Gallery, The Green Kettle Antiques; Jimmy and Geraldine Camier's Fruit and Veg; Tim and Marie McCarthy, Butchers; Oska Factory Outlet, Toormore.

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