Sligger Point

Sligger Point is a locality in County Cork, Munster. Sligger Point is situated nearby to the locality Three Castle Head, as well as near Dunlough Island.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Dunlough Castle and Mizen Head.

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.

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. Mizen Head is situated 3 km south of Sligger Point.

Dun Lough

Photo: AFBorchert, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Three Castle Head and Sheep’s Head.

Three Castle Head

Locality

Photo: AFBorchert, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Three Castle Head is a locality.

Sheep’s Head

Locality

Photo: Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Sheep's Head, also known as Muntervary, is the headland at the end of the Sheep's Head peninsula situated between Bantry Bay and Dunmanus Bay in County Cork, Ireland. Sheep’s Head is situated 7 km north of Sligger Point.

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 Sligger Point.

Sligger Point

Type: Locality
Location: County Cork, Munster, Southwest Ireland, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.47775° or 51° 28′ 40″ north

Longitude

-9.83285° or 9° 49′ 58″ west

Open location code

9C3GF5H8+3V

OpenStreetMap ID

node 3622436096

OpenStreetMap feature

place=locality

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