Visit Ahakista.

Ahakista is a small Irish village on the Sheep’s Head Peninsula, between Durrus and Kilcrohane in County Cork. Situated on the seafront, this small coastal village is appreciated for its small deep-water port, as well as for its surrounding forests.

The village is charming, even if it doesn’t offer much in the way of tourist attractions, apart from its prehistoric stone circle (the Ahakista Circle Stone). The village has a church, 2 Irish pubs, 2b&b and a few local shops. It is crossed by the Sheep’s Head Way, an 88km circuit that circumnavigates the Sheep’s Head Peninsula.

Here you’ll come across the Air India Crash Memorial, a monument to the 1985 bombing of an Air India plane flying over Ireland’s west coast. No passengers survived.