holiday 2020 was a fortnight in West Cork, south-west Ireland



at the end of summer


the first week, a cottage on Toe Head




an edge-of-the-world wilderness on the Atlantic




Toe Head is near Skibbereen but feels apart, remote

Nearby places with magical names:



Leap, Roaring Water Bay, Chimney Cove
Barleycove, Crookhaven, Squince



Sherkin, Inchydoney, Mizen
Ballydehob, Ring, Owenahincha

Schull was our least favourite settlement, then Baltimore



(too polished, yahty; a bit smug?).


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