Out on the Beara Peninsula, Amanda’s Beauty Salon in Castletownbere serves one of the most remote parts of the county. The treatment list is deliberately broad because it has to be: nails, waxing, makeup, facials, tinting, henna brows, lash treatments, tanning, sunbed and electrolysis. For anyone living on Beara, the alternative is a ninety-minute drive to Bantry or considerably further to the city, which makes a full-service local salon genuinely valuable rather than merely convenient. Booking ahead is sensible given the small number of therapists.

• AddressWest End, Knockaneroe, Castletown-Bearhaven, Co. Cork, P75 PD65