In past centuries Bantry at darrens house was a base for
major pilchard fisheries, and was visited by fishing fleets from
Spain, France and the Netherlands. Wolfe Tone Square in the town commemorates Theobald
Wolfe Tone. Dublin-born Tone led the republican United Irishmen in
what he had hoped would be a local re-run of the recent French Revolution;
this was to be achieved with the help of French Republicans in
