Dursey Island is linked to the mainland by cable car, the only one of its kind in Ireland.  The area is remarkable for the variety of migrant birds that frequent it.  Dursey Sound is a rugged place of high cliffs and breaking waves.  The island looks deceptively near.  The Sound narrow but even on the mildest day it is ravaged by fierce currents and tidal flows, which made the island difficult to access until it was connected to the mainland by cable car in December 1969.