The Roaringwater Journal has spent fifteen years writing about West Cork: its castles and megaliths, walks, islands, gardens and festivals. This map reads their whole archive — every post, not just the Things to Do index — and turns it back into geography.
Posts about the same place are grouped onto a single marker, so Ballydehob gets one useful pin carrying its hundred-odd stories rather than a hundred pins having a quiet argument.
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—journal stories
—photographs
Search by place name, description or story title.
Where pins crowd together the smaller ones become dots; zoom in and they come back.
The location button puts you on the map, draws how accurate that fix is, sorts every place by how far it is from you, and turns the Google Maps button into directions. Your position stays in the browser and is never sent anywhere.
Photos lays the journal's own photographs over the map, picking the ones that fit without overlapping.
Places were located by matching the journal’s own tags against OpenStreetMap. Many pins mark the townland or nearest named feature rather than an exact monument or access point — each such place says so.
Open any place for its description, photo gallery, journal links and a Google Maps handoff.
Before you travel: check access, opening times, weather, transport and event dates. Photographs and writing remain the copyright of the Roaringwater Journal and are shown here linked back to their original posts.
