Brow Head
Brow Head is the most southerly point of mainland Ireland. It is in the rural townland of Mallavoge near Crookhaven in County Cork, Ireland. It is 3.8 km east of Mizen Head at latitude 51.43ºN.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mizen Head and Barleycove.
Mizen Head
Scenic viewpoint
Photo: Ent-ente, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Barleycove
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Barleycove or Barley Cove is a bay and beach in County Cork, on the south coast of Ireland. It is situated close to Mizen Head on the Mizen Peninsula, with Crookhaven or Goleen being the nearest villages.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Crookhaven and Three Castle 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.
Goleen
Village
Photo: AFBorchert, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.
Brow Head
- Type: Cape
- Description: place in Cork, Republic of Ireland
- Category: landform
- Location: County Cork, Munster, Southwest Ireland, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.44775° or 51° 26′ 52″ northLongitude
-9.77406° or 9° 46′ 27″ westElevation
3 metres (10 feet)Open location code
9C3GC6XG+39OpenStreetMap ID
node 3395207336OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cape
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Brow Head” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Brow Head”
- Breton: “Ceann Bró”
- Cebuano: “Brow Head”
- Dutch: “Brow Head”
- French: “Brow Head”
- Irish: “Ceann Bró”
- Italian: “Capo Brow”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Brow Head”
- Swedish: “Brow Head”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Brow Head Signal Tower and Chimney Cove.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Brow Head”. Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.