There are three more Great Lighthouses in Co Cork: Ballycotton, Galley Head, and Fastnet Rock. The Fastnet was known as Ireland's Teardrop during the Great Famine, as it was the last piece of ...

On the stretch of rugged beach by Ballycotton we stop and get out to look out at the lighthouse perched on ... I have come for a long weekend in Ireland — and instead of Dublin or Belfast ...