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The island is divided into east and west halves by an isthmus. Ferries sail from the North Harbour to Schull and Baltimore on the mainland.
The island is known as the birthplace of Saint Kierna , for the Dún an Óir fort, and for its birdlife, including guillemots, cormorants and storm petrels. Seal (mammal)s, basking sharks and dolphins are found in the surrounding water, while sea pink s and honeysuckleLonicera albiflora Lonicera arizonica Lonicera x bella Lonicera caerulea Lonicera canadensis Lonicera caprifolium Lonicera chrysantha Lonicera ciliosa Lonicera conjugialis Lonicera dioica Lonicera etrusca Lonicera flava Lonicera fragrantissima Lonicera x are common plants on the land.
Cape Clear is also home to a lighthouseAn aid for navigation and pilotage at sea, a lighthouse is a tower building or framework sending out light from a system of lamps and lenses or, in older times, from a fire. More primitive navigational aids were once used such as a fire on top of a hill o and a bird observatoryA bird observatory is a centre for the study of bird migration and bird populations. Observatories in Britain and Ireland (all are members of the Bird Observatories Council of Britain and Ireland) Bardsey Bird and Field Observatory Calf of Man ( Isle of M.
Wild indigenous snakes are not thought to exist anywhere on the mainland of Ireland , however natives of Cape Clear claim that the island is home to small wild snakes.