Useful publications:
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Online: 
• Discover Beara  at the Beara Tourism site  With a recently added a Beara News and Events section. Read up on local news and sports fixtures. This is updated weekly.>

• West Cork, the guide: This colourful site is a  guide to different parts West Cork on a rotating basis, it also covers Flora and Fauna. You can also order the book “West Cork, a guide” details on the site.

• Wild Ireland   Online Magazine

• The Irish Times:  Good starting point for anything Irish www.irishtimes.ie
 

On paper:

• Discover Allihies – A charming booklet produced by local school children some years ago but still in print and available locally.

• Discover Dursey – Local historian Penny Durey wrote and collected stories and legends about this unique island off the tip of the Beara peninsula.

• The Allihies Copper Mines – A description and history of the Copper mines from the initial discovery of ore in the cliffs to a massive mine, which employed two thousand people at its peak of production.

• O.S. Map 84 1:50000 series covers the area in detail.