134i. Garinish Island/Garnish Island

(boat trip from Glengarriff)

Beara Peninsula, Ring of Beara, County Cork

SCENES from IRELAND

Garinish or Garnish Island (Irish: Garinis)[1] (also known as Ilnacullin) is an island in Glengarriff Bay, a sheltered inlet of Bantry Bay at the start of the southern shoreline of the Beara Peninsula in County West Cork. Garinish Island is a popular tourist attraction with beautiful walled gardens, a Martello tower, the historic house and lives of the Bryce family, lovely views and walks and a cafe too!

The Blue Pool in Glengarriff where you get the ferry to Garnish/Garinish Island.

The Blue Pool and Blue Pool Ferry II

The ferry boat and a small fishing vessel S751 BAY VENTURE

Seal Point, good view of the local seal population off Glengarriff

Seals on the rocks

Father and son crew working the Garnish/Garinish Island ferry boat.

Sea Eagle in Glengarriff Bay

The walled garden and other features where designed by Harold Peto, (1854–1933), for the owner of Garinish Island, John Annan Bryce, (1841–1923)

He was a native of Belfast, who purchased the island from the War Office in 1910.

Bryce's son Roland bequeathed the island to the Irish nation in 1953 and is now maintained by the Office of Public Works.

Garinish Island is renowned for its gardens and architecture and has played host to writers including George Bernard Shaw and George William Russell.

There is a restored Martello tower on the island dating from the time of the Napoleonic Wars.

Garinish island covers15 hectares (37 acres) and is renowned for its gardens which flourish beautifully in the mild humid micro-climate of Glengarriff harbour helped by a mainly pine shelter belt.

Architectural features include a clock tower, a Grecian temple, a Martello Tower, and an Italian casita.

There is a frequent ferry services from the village of Glengarriff and they include a tour of the nearby seal colony and maybe a view of a sea eagle which nest in Glengarriff Bay - Bantry Bay.

 

 

Bryce House, Garnish/Garinish Island

 

The story of the Bryce family

 

The study, Bryce house, Garnish/Garinish Island

 

The bedroom of Bryce’s housekeeper Margaret O’Sullivan, who lived and worked on Garnish/Garinish Island from 1926 up until a few years prior to her death in 1999.
 

The kitchen Bryce House, Garnish/Garinish Island

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Photo of Roland Bryce, Margaret O'Sullivan and Murdo MacKenzie

 

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Walking around the walled garden of Garnish/Garinish Island, most pleasant, even on a damp day!

 

 

 

first view of the Italian Garden

The lovely Italian Garden

 

 

 

 

The view across Glengarriff Bay from the Italian Garden

 

 

 

 

 

One of the entrances to the walled garden.

 

The walled garden

 

 

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The Grecian Temple, a roofless rotunda overlooking the sea and Caha Mountains on Garnish/Garinish Island

 

Happy Valley

 

 

The Martello Tower, Garnish/Garinish Island, built in Napoleonic times to defend against a possible French invasion, on the top would be a gun emplacement to fire at ships entering Bantry Bay.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

back through the walled garden

 

 

 

The Cafe and slipway on Garnish/Garinish Island where the ferry boats come in to land people on Garinish Island

 

The return trip from Garnish/Garinish Island back to Glengarriff

 

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