Cork Harbour
Cork Harbour is a natural harbour and river estuary at the mouth of the River Lee in County Cork, Ireland. It is one of several which lay claim to the title of "second largest natural harbour in the world by navigational area".| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Harbor
- Description: harbor
- Also known as: “Cork Bay”
- Historically known as: “Queenstown Harbour”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Spit Bank Lighthouse and Spike Island.
Spit Bank Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: MikaLaureque, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Spit Bank Lighthouse close to Cobh in County Cork, Ireland is a screw-pile lighthouse which marks a shallow bank in the navigable channels of lower Cork Harbour.
Spike Island
Islet
Photo: Kondephy, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Spike Island is an island of 103 acres in Cork Harbour, Ireland. Originally the site of a monastic settlement, the island is dominated by an 18th-century bastion fort now named Fort Mitchel.
Cove Fort
Castle
Photo: Charles Vallancey, Public domain.
Cove Fort is a small bastioned land battery to the east of Cobh in County Cork, Ireland. Built as a coastal defence fortification in 1743, on instruction of the then Vice-Admiral of the Coast, it replaced a number of temporary coastal artillery batteries which defended Cork Harbour.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cobh and Whitegate.
Cobh
Photo: J.Pollock, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cobh is a port in Cork Harbour, County Cork, in southwest Ireland. It's pronounced "cove" and that's what it means, a sheltered harbour. It's part of the commuter belt for Cork city and in 2022 had a population of 14,000.
Whitegate
Village
Photo: John M, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Whitegate is a small village in East Cork on the eastern shore of Cork Harbour in County Cork, Ireland. It lies within the townlands of Ballincarroonig and Corkbeg. Whitegate is situated 3 km southeast of Cork Harbour.
Ringaskiddy
Village
Photo: Ralph Rawlinson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ringaskiddy is a village in County Cork, Ireland. It is located on the western side of Cork Harbour, south of Cobh, and is 15 kilometres from Cork city, to which it is connected by the N28 road. Ringaskiddy is situated 4 km west of Cork Harbour.
Cork Harbour
- Category: transportation
- Location: County Cork, Munster, Southwest Ireland, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Slovenian—“Cork Harbour” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Cork badia”
- Chinese: “科克港灣”
- Dutch: “Cork Harbour”
- Finnish: “Cork Harbour”
- French: “Cork Harbour”
- German: “Cork Harbour”
- Indonesian: “Pelabuhan Cork”
- Irish: “Cuan Chorcaí”
- Japanese: “コーク・ハーバー”
- Japanese: “コーク港”
- Japanese: “コーク湾”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cork Harbour”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cork Harbour”
- Polish: “Cork Harbour”
- Polish: “Zatoka Cork”
- Portuguese: “Cork Harbour”
- Slovenian: “Cork Harbour”
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