Welcome to Glengarriff, the natural meeting place at the heart of West Cork. This website will hopefully help to make your stay in the area a pleasurable and memorable one.

Glengarriff is famed for its natural beauty. Situated on world-renowned Bantry Bay where the mountains meet the sea, Glengarriff is the gateway to the Beara Peninsula, connecting the towns of Bantry and Kenmare and has also acquired a fine reputation for the great variety of shops, galleries, accommodation, restaurants, pubs and services.

Glengarriff has been famous as a holiday destination since the 1700s and boomed in the Victorian times as an important stop along the Prince-of-Wales-Route. Today Glengarriff attracts visitors from all over the world. The population of the Glengarriff is just 800 – it expands significantly in size during the summer months.

Glengarriff – the natural meeting place – with its unrivalled beauty, its peace and tranquillity, invites you to sit back, relax and take in the very special ambience of the place.

Enjoy your visit, tell your friends and come back soon!

All-year-round destination

The climate of the Glengarriff area is influenced by its proximity to the Atlantic and the Gulf stream. The warm ocean currents means that rare plants flourish, frost is rare and snow almost unheard of. Average rainfall is around 2000mm, but how else could we keep everything so green.