Dingle Peninsula
With it’s versatile terrain, it is clear that the Dingle Peninsula went through many physical changes throughout the years. This is evident in it’s sculpted landscape where mountains, sea-cliffs and coves exist south and west of the peninsula with 32km of sandy coastline to the northern shore.
The Peninsula is home to over two thousand archaeological sites. Here the Gaeltacht is preserved where it is common to speak Irish from day to day. There are so many things to see, to do, to explore, to experience on the Dingle Peninsula, from visiting the many archaeological sites, to swimming with Fungie, a bottlenose dolphin who’s been living at the mouth of Dingle harbour since 1984, to a day spent on the Blasket Islands.
Visitors to Dingle should visit St Mary’s Catholic Church. This is a particularly handsome building of red sandstone designed by JJ McCarthy, the architectural successor of AW Pugin and the leading exponent of the neo-Gothic style of the time. The church was opened in 1865. More recent renovations have altered the distinctive Gothic character of the church, which remains a remarkable building.
With it’s versatile terrain, it is clear that the Dingle Peninsula went through many physical changes throughout the years. This is evident in it’s sculpted landscape where mountains, sea-cliffs and coves exist south and west of the peninsula with 32km of sandy coastline to the northern shore.
The Peninsula is home to over two thousand archaeological sites. Here the Gaeltacht is preserved where it is common to speak Irish from day to day. There are so many things to see, to do, to explore, to experience on the Dingle Peninsula, from visiting the many archaeological sites, to swimming with Fungie, a bottlenose dolphin who’s been living at the mouth of Dingle harbour since 1984, to a day spent on the Blasket Islands.
Visitors to Dingle should visit St Mary’s Catholic Church. This is a particularly handsome building of red sandstone designed by JJ McCarthy, the architectural successor of AW Pugin and the leading exponent of the neo-Gothic style of the time. The church was opened in 1865. More recent renovations have altered the distinctive Gothic character of the church, which remains a remarkable building.
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