Dursey Island is a five square mile rocky island at the end of the Beara Peninsula jutting inrto the Alantic Ocean. It is about two hundred yards from the peninusla across a treacherous channel of water. Its only link to the mainland is this cable-car. It can carry three people and a cow! It is said that the installation of the cable car was underway a sage old island inhabitant described the car as "a tin-can hanging from telephone wires" and declared that he would prefer to die in his bed.

This is the only cable car in operation in Ireland and is unique in that it is the only European cable that crosses open water.
Near the spot where the cable-car passengers disembark is a place known as "Pairc an Air" - the Massacre Field. It is said to be the place where a large number of the O'Sullivan Clan and their followers were killed in an ethnic cleansing operation by Crown Forces under the command of Sir Peter Carew. On the island are the ruins of St. Mary's Abbey and in the nearby graveyard is the family vault of O'Sullivan Beara.

Location: Ballaghboy, Beara Peninsula, Co.Cork

Photographer: Mark Callanan

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