A hike up Knocknadobar

The mountain of Knocknadobar towers over the harbour at Coonanna, just a few miles along the coast from the cottage. A waymarked Pilgrim’s Path rises up from a car park near the harbour, and on the way up you pass the thirteen stations of the cross.
I haven’t walked this for many years, but after a showery start to the day it turned out pretty fair and on the way in to Cahersiveen I changed my plans and headed for the foot of the mountain.
My head was half full of the book I am halfway through re-reading, “The Third Policeman” by Flann O’ Brien, an Irish civil servant with a taste for the delightfully ridiculous. If you have missed out on this, I can recommend it: it is a singularly eccentric and uniquely Irish tale in a comedic magico-realist genre. So on the way up the mountain, in between the travails of the Saviour on his last days I was looking out for leprechauns and sprites and ascertaining the colours of the wind (perhaps you didn’t know that winds from different directions have specific colours? I only just discovered this myself but the mystical 3rd policeman has the gift of reading them).
The views from the mountain are marvellous and I was lucky to have a reasonably clear sky for much of the way up. At one point I saw a squall coming in across Dingle Bay, but had plenty of time to whip on my rain gear and hide my camera safely before it arrived.
It was a good old way to the top but you are rewarded with remarkable views in three directions, towards Dingle and the Blaskets, Killelan and Valencia, and Cahersiveen and the Carhan valley.