400 years ago, in 1603, Donal Cam O?Sullivan Beara, chieftain of the O' Sullivan Bera Clan, led a march of a thousand men, women and children, from the Beara Peninsula, West Cork to Breifne, in the Leitrim Cavan area.
It happened as a result of the Irish and the Spanish defeat by the British Crown forces at the Battle of Kinsale.
The historic route from the Beara Peninsula to Breifne is now to form part of the European Greenways trails. It will be developed with 1 million Euros of funding as a long distance walking, cycling, heritage and clans route linking with the Ulster Way and cycling routes in Northern Ireland. Thereby providing a route that runs the length of Southern Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Running through the counties of Cork, south Tipperary and Galway, the Beara-Breifne Greenway is Ireland's first designated Greenway; here are
maps of the entire waymarked route.
