Shipwrecks, sea birds and whale spotting: exploring Ireland’s first marine park

Shipwrecks, sea birds and whale spotting: exploring Ireland’s first marine park

A vast swathe of the rugged Kerry coast and its Atlantic isles is now a protected haven for wildlife, and the occasional Jedi knight I’m crouching in a windowless stone cell, peering at a ball of fluff stuffed into a crack in the floor. The cell is a beehive hut, or clochán; 1,400 years ago,…