About Healy Pass Waterfall
The Healy Pass Waterfall was really my excuse to cut through the inner heart of the Ring of Beara Peninsula contrasting the scenery along its more well-traveled coastal route.
The waterfall itself is more like a cascade that just so happens to be nearby a known landmark (i.e. the Healy Pass).
It was modestly-sized and not likely to have a long season given that the Beara Peninsula seemed to be sunnier and drier compared to the other well-known peninsulas of Ireland’s west coast.
By the way, Healy Pass was named after Timothy Michael Healy, who was the first governor general of the Irish Free State, and it was built in 1847 to help stave off starvation during the famine.
As for experiencing the waterfall, it’s roadside easily seen from a road bridge.
There’s some room on the corners of the bridge that allowed us to briefly park the car and take pictures (though it’s definitely not a place to linger).
However, if you do want to linger around here, there’s more parking spaces at the Healy Pass itself.
From there, you can walk back towards the road bridge in front of the Healy Pass Waterfall (a distance of about 600m in each direction (or 1.2km round-trip).
By the way, my topo map suggested that there might be another waterfall further down on the County Cork side of the Healy Pass.
Unfortunately, we didn’t stop for it as it didn’t seem significant enough for us bother in our haste to continue exploring the Beara in limited time.
Authorities
The Healy Pass Waterfall is in the Ring of Beara between the towns of Kenmare and Glengarriff straddling the boundary of County Kerry and County Cork, Ireland. It is administered by the Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII). For information or inquiries about the area as well as current conditions, you can try visiting the Beara Tourism website.
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