Eyeries

Eyeries na hAoraí
Village
Painted houses in Eyeries
Eyeries Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 51°41′37″N 09°57′29″W / 51.69361°N 9.95806°W / 51.69361; -9.95806Coordinates: 51°41′37″N 09°57′29″W / 51.69361°N 9.95806°W / 51.69361; -9.95806
Country	Ireland
Province	Munster
County	County Cork
Time zone	WET (UTC+0)
• Summer (DST)	IST (WEST) (UTC-1)

Eyeries (historically spelt Irees or Iries, from Irish: na hAoraí)^[1] is a village and townland on the Beara Peninsula in County Cork, Ireland overlooking Coulagh Bay and the mouth of the Kenmare River in the south-west. It lies at the base of Maulin, which, at 2,044 feet (623 m), is the highest peak in the Slieve Miskish mountain range that forms part of the backbone of the peninsula. Eyeries was the location for the shooting of the film The Purple Taxi (1977) starring Fred Astaire, Peter Ustinov, and Charlotte Rampling, and also the 1998 TV series Falling for a Dancer, a dramatisation of life and love in 1930s Ireland based on the novel by Deirdre Purcell.

Nearby is the Ballycrovane Ogham stone, the tallest known, standing 17.5 feet (5.3 m) high and bearing the inscription 'MAQI DECCEDDAS AVI TURANIAS' which translates as "Mac Deich Uí Turainn" or "son of Deich the descendant of Turainn". Neither of these two people are known to Irish history.^{[citation needed]}

Eyeries is served by a Roman Catholic church, Saint Kentigern's.

References

1. ↑ Placenames Database of Ireland (see archival records)

• The Automobile Association (AA) "Illustrated Road Book of Ireland", Dublin, 1966.
• Harbison, Peter, "Guide to the National Monuments of Ireland", Gill & Macmillan, Dublin, 1975.

See also

• List of towns and villages in Ireland.

External links

• Beara web guide
• Beara Tourism website
• Beara Information Resource site
• Cork Ancestors Allihies/Eyeries
• Some pics and info on Eyeries village

Gallery

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  View of Allihies.

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  Allihies beach.

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