An Sibin, Lauragh

Are we there yet? Discovering far flung deliciousness

At the foot of the Healy Pass, where West Cork breaks the tape of the county border and passes on the mantle of the Beara Peninsula to the Kingdom of Kerry, there is an old coaching inn called An Sibin.

It looks, and feels, and is, like something from a dream: ageless, inviting, alluring. In his first novel, The Snake’s Path, Bram Stoker wrote this: “At …