Bantry
Bantry (: Beanntraí) a city small is in to the head of Bantry Bay. The borough lies to N71, between the peninsulas Beara and Sheep's Head. Bantry have an important regional function.
An important source of income for the local population is - beside tourism - the mosselkweek, what clearly to see is to ranging the nets floating with mussels in the bay.
Plane for the coast at Bantry lies Whiddy Island. On this island lie the rests of what in former days important olie-overslagterminal were, which ensured much employment. When on 8 January 1979 the tanker ' Betelgeuse called ' came exploded, thereby the 42 crew members and 7 employees of the terminal for living. About 250 people lost their job. The damage to the environment was large. Still there from time to time tankers come discharge oil for rise on Whiddy, but they can no longer moor to the worm of the island.
Wolfe Tone Square in the borough have been called to an Irish verzetsstrijder who it got in 1798, for each other to get a French armada behind itself in the fight against English predominance. The attack had been planned in the middle of the winter, and by the bad and lack of communication between the ships an effective attack appeared impossible. On British side also the Dutchman fought Willem Frederik earl of Bylandt . A expositie concerning the fight is find in stately Bantry house, located to N71 in Southern direction as from Bantry.
The Mosselfeest take place annually in the month of May in Bantry.
