Mizen Head
Mizen Head is traditionally regarded as the most southerly point of mainland Ireland although Brow Head is the actual southernmost point. It is at the end of the Mizen Peninsula in the district of Carbery in County Cork.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Mizen Head Lighthouse and Dunlough Castle.
Dunlough Castle
Photo: Dunlough, Public domain.
Dunlough Castle, standing atop the cliffs at the northern tip of the Mizen Peninsula, looks at the Atlantic Ocean from the extreme southwest point of Ireland. Dunlough Castle is situated 4 km north of Mizen Head.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Three Castle Head and Crookhaven.
Three Castle Head
Locality
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Three Castle Head is a locality, which is situated 4 km north of Mizen Head.
Crookhaven
Village
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Crookhaven is a village in County Cork, Ireland, on the most southwestern tip of the island of Ireland. With an out-of-season population of about sixty, it swells in the summer season to about four hundred, when the occupants of the seasonal holiday homes arrive. Crookhaven is situated 7 km east of Mizen Head.
Goleen
Village
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Goleen is a small rural village in County Cork on the south-western tip of Ireland. Farming, tourism and construction work are among the main occupations of the local people. Goleen is situated 9 km northeast of Mizen Head.
Mizen Head
- Type: Cape
- Description: point in southwest Ireland
- Category: landform
- Location: County Cork, Munster, Southwest Ireland, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Ukrainian—“Mizen Head” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Mizen Head”
- Breton: “Carn Uí Néid”
- Cebuano: “Mizen Head”
- Chinese: “迈曾角”
- Czech: “Mizen Head”
- Czech: “Mizen”
- Czech: “mys Mizen”
- Danish: “Mizen Head”
- Dutch: “Mizen Head”
- French: “Mizen Head”
- German: “Mizen-Halbinsel”
- Irish: “Carn Uí Néid”
- Italian: “Capo Mizen”
- Japanese: “ミズンヘッド”
- Japanese: “ミゼンヘッド”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mizen Head”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mizen Head”
- Norwegian: “Mizen Head”
- Portuguese: “Mizen Head”
- Slovak: “Mizen Head”
- Spanish: “Cabo Mizen”
- Swedish: “Mizen Head”
- Ukrainian: “Мізен-Гед”
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