Castletownbere, located on the Beara Peninsula in West County Cork is a town of about 1500 people and Ireland's leading whitefish port, also the home of the renowned Bere Island Scallop, (Lauded by chefs as the finest in the world), boasts possibly the finest natural harbour in Ireland.

Nestling between the Caha and Slieve Miskish Mountains the town is sheltered from the Atlantic Ocean by Bere Island.

Located at the mouth to Bantry Bay, the world’s second deepest bay, (next only to Sydney, Australia). Castletownbere Harbour provides extensive piers with safe berthing for both commercial and pleasure craft. Being on the Gulf Stream the winters are very mild and rarely do temperatures drop to freezing.

The town, ancestral seat of Clan O'Sullivan Bere with Dunboy Castle within walking distance, (site of the last battle in Ireland between Elizabeth I and the Gaelic Chiefdoms) is the perfect base for both visitors and environmentalists alike to explore the unspoilt beauty of Beara Peninsula's flora & fauna and the many antiquities it has to offer.