Charlotte Bronte and Arthur Bell Nicholl's Honeymoon, 1854.

Having travelled the extremely scenic route from Killarney, via Kenmare our honeymoon couple, Charlotte Bronte and Arthur Bell Nicholls, finally arrived in Glegarriff which means 'the rough glen' and is around 3 miles long and a quarter of a mile in breadth. We do not know for sure if they stayed in Glengarriff or if they just passed through. However, it is highly likely that they stopped off to appreciate the scenery of the location, set alongside Bantry Bay and cradled by the mountains. Their hotel of choice may have been the Glengarriff Inn which is now known as The Eccles Hotel, however, there is no evidence to confirm this is the case. The Glengarriff Inn not long after Charlotte's and Arthur's 1854 visit to the village. The Glengarriff Inn is now known as The Eccles Hotel. The central section was added and extended upwards after our couple's visit to Glengarriff. Here is the elegant central extension. The hotel has been in existence since 1745.  The Glengarrif...

Driving up through the mighty Caha Mountains from  Kenmare to Glengariff.   It is worth clicking on each photograph and video and watching them on full screen to appreciate the splendour of this scenery. We travelled this road by car. Imagine Charlotte Bronte and Arthur in a covered carriage, but a carriage none the less. From Killarney to Glengarriff via Kenmare.                                                   Charlotte and Arthur were now ready to head even further south in Ireland, leaving Killarney behind and heading next for Glengarriff. We know this is their route as Charlotte wrote to her friend Ellen Nussey on 28th July 1854 from Dublin, "We have been travelling about, with only just such cessation as enabled me to answer a few of the many notes of congratulations forwarded... We have been to Killarney, Glen Garriffe, Tarbert, Tralee, Cork...