Kilcoe Pier is a quiet, picturesque access point situated at the mouth of the Roaring Water River, where the waterway meets the sea in a sheltered backwater of leafy boreens in West Cork.

The pier can be reached on foot from Kilcoe Church at Meen Bridge on the N71 between Skibbereen and Ballydehob, following a scenic walk south along the riverbank.

The Roaring Water River rises on the southern slopes of Mount Kidd just 6 kilometres away, but by the time it reaches the pier it has become a notable torrent.

Local tradition holds that the noise the river made rushing over rocks and weirs in its final stretch gave its name both to the river itself and to the wider Roaringwater Bay. The boreens leading to the pier now form part of the Fastnet Trail Network.