Adrigole
Eadargóil | |
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Village | |
Coordinates: 51°41′34″N 9°43′33″W / 51.69278°N 9.72583°W | |
Country | Ireland |
Province | Munster |
County | County Cork |
Population (2016) | 452[1] |
(Includes local electoral district) | |
Time zone | UTC+0 (WET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-1 (IST (WEST)) |
Adrigole (Irish: Eadargóil, meaning 'between two inlets')[2] is a village on the Beara Peninsula in County Cork, Ireland. It is centred on the junction of the R572 and R574 regional roads. The electoral division in which the village sits has a population of about 450 people.[1]
Adrigole is a scattered village strung approximately 9 km along the north-western shore of Bantry Bay on the scenic south coast of the Beara Peninsula. Looming over it is Hungry Hill (687m, 2,253 ft) with two rock-girt lakes which feed a cascade. Hungry Hill is the highest of the Caha range which forms the spine of the peninsula, and gave its name to Daphne du Maurier's novel about the local copper-mining barons of the 19th century. There is also Adrigole Mountain and the Healy Pass (334m) nearby.