This is the large hill at the south-western part of Sherkin and is the highest point on the island. If you are feeling adventurous and manage to attain it’s summit then you will be rewarded with truly stunning views of Carbery’s Hundred Isles to the north and east and to the south, like an enormous splurt of dazzling silk, the Atlantic ocean.

Directly north from here on the mainland is Mount Gabriel behind the town of Schull, and tapering off into the west, the Mizen peninsula.

Old people say that if the end of the peninsula is high out of the water (like the stern of a Cunard liner) then we are in for some good weather. If, however, it’s slanting into the ocean then it’s not such a good sign.

In bygone days when people from the island emigrated to the United States, their friends and relations would light a fire on this hill top and watch as the ship bearing their loved one away passed en route to America. For many, when the ship passed out of sight, that was the last they ever saw of their son or daughter.