Bantry House Gardens
Many of our festival goers make time between events to stroll through the Bantry House gardens, and to climb the famous steps behind the house for views right across Bantry Bay and the Beara peninsula.
The garden is host, each year, to an incredibly scenic yoga session, as part of the West Cork Literary Festival. House and garden tour tickets are available, and garden tickets are one of the perks included in West Cork Music’s friend scheme.
Bantry House is one of the finest historic houses in Ireland and commands stunning views Bantry Bay in West Cork. The house has been open to the public since 1946 – it was the first historic house to open in this way in Ireland and possibly also in the British Isles. It is still owned and lived in by the Shelswell-White family, who are direct descendants of Richard White (1st Earl of Bantry).