HOW CAN THIS PLACE HAVE SO MANY PUBS!!
The curiously named village of Leap in County Cork, is kind of typically Irish in that it contains no less than 4 pubs in a village that the census states had just 167 people. It’s found on this busy N71, on the route from Skibbereen to Clonakilty in County Cork and is the kind of place you’re only likely the visit by passing through it on the road to elsewhere. But, it’s a charming little place, and I felt it deserved its own Naked Ireland video. So here we are.
Now you might be thinking ‘Leap’ that’s a bit of a mad name for a village. The name is apparently shortened from O’Donovan’s Leap and originates in the story of an Irish Chieftain of that name who while escaping from English soldiers, jumped across a ravine up where the waterfall is. Later in 1684 Charles II granted another O’Donavan (no doubt a descendant of the former) what’s known as “letters Patent” – granting him the rights to the land in other words.
Credit to : Naked Ireland