County Cork
County Cork is in Southwest Ireland, and historically part of the province of Munster. It's the largest county in the Republic, and Cork is the country's second largest city, with many visitor attractions.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Cork and Cobh.
Cork
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Cork is the principal city of County Cork in southwest Ireland. Known as "the Rebel City" the "real capital of Ireland", Cork has a strong independence and Corkonians are proud of its role in Irish history.
Cobh
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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.
Kinsale
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Kinsale is a small harbour in County Cork, Southwest Ireland. It's 25 km south of Cork city, at the mouth of the River Bandon, and in 2022 had a population of 6000.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Mallow and Youghal.
Mallow
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Mallow is a town in County Cork with a population of 13,500 in 2022. It's a market and light industrial town best known for its racecourse, and as the place you get stuck if you miss your rail connection to Killarney.
Youghal
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Youghal is a harbour town at the east edge of County Cork in Ireland. It preserves many remnants of its medieval and early modern heyday, when it was a walled city and major port. In 2022 it had a population of about 8,600.
Bantry
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Bantry is a town at the head of Bantry Bay in County Cork in southwest Ireland. In 2022 it had a population of 2900. The southwest coast of Cork is divided into three peninsulas, like claws on the foot of Ireland.
Clonakilty
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Clonakilty, often shortened to "Clon", is a town on the coast of County Cork in southwest Ireland, 50 km southwest of Cork city. It's a seaside resort, with a population of 5000 in 2022.
Macroom
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Macroom is a market town in County Cork, southwest Ireland. It stands halfway between Cork and Killarney at a point where the fertile Lee valley gives way to rugged uplands, and the road starts its climb over to County Kerry.
Skibbereen
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Skibbereen is a village in the southwest of County Cork, Ireland. An Sciobairín means "the little boat harbour" - it would have to be a small boat to get this far up the River Ilen.
Blarney
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Blarney is a village in County Cork, nowadays incorporated into the nearby city of Cork. It's been on the tourist circuit for almost 300 years thanks to its castle and Blarney Stone. It's also a commuter town for Cork, with a population in 2016 of 2539.
Glengarriff
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Glengarriff is a village at the base of the Beara Peninsula of County Cork in southwest Ireland. It's in an inlet of Bantry Bay, and became a tourist resort in the late 19th century.
Castletownbere
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Castletownbere is a port on the Beara Peninsula in County Cork in the southwest of Ireland, with a population of 1000 in 2021. It's doubly sheltered: Bere Island creates the long anchorage of Bearhaven, then Dinish Island sits just outside the harbour.
Baltimore
Baltimore is a village in County Cork near the southwest tip of Ireland. The harbour is large, and sheltered by islands - several are inhabited and are also described on this page.
Crosshaven
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Crosshaven is a coastal village in County Cork, with a population of 3300 in 2022. It's at the point where the River Owenabue flows into Cork Harbour, and its Irish name is Bun an Tabhairne, "mouth of the river Sabhrann".
Schull
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Schull is a harbour town on the Mizen Head peninsula of County Cork, at the southwest tip of Ireland. The name means school, and was first documented in 1199 suggesting a religious seminary, but there's no trace of that.
Castletownshend
Castletownshend is a village in County Cork in southwest Ireland. It's a tiny place, just a single street leading down to the harbour, with a population of 167 in 2022.Sherkin Island
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Sherkin Island or Inisherkin is one of the islands of Roaringwater Bay in County Cork, a short ferry ride from Baltimore. Its Irish name Inis Arcáin means "Island of the Piglet", which probably refers to sea-pigs meaning porpoises.
County Cork
- Type: county of Ireland with 400,000 residents
- Description: county in Ireland
- Also known as: “Co Cork”, “Co. Cork”, “Co. Corke”, “Cork”, “Cork Co.”, “Cork County”, “Corke”, “Corke Co.”, “Corke County”, “County Cork, Ireland”, and “County Corke”
- Neighbors: County Kerry, County Limerick, County Tipperary, and County Waterford
- Location: Munster, Southwest Ireland, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“County Cork” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Qarku Cork”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة كورك”
- Arabic: “مقاطعه كورك”
- Armenian: “Կորկ”
- Asturian: “Condáu de Cork”
- Azerbaijani: “Kork”
- Balinese: “County Cork”
- Basque: “Cork konderria”
- Basque: “Corkeko konderri”
- Basque: “Corkeko konderria”
- Belarusian: “графства Корк”
- Belarusian: “Корк, графства”
- Belarusian: “Корк”
- Bengali: “কাউন্টি কর্ক”
- Breton: “Kontelezh Corcaí”
- Breton: “Kontelezh Corcaigh”
- Breton: “Kontelezh Cork”
- Breton: “Kontelezh Korkig”
- Bulgarian: “Корк”
- Catalan: “comtat de Cork”
- Catalan: “Comtat de Cork”
- Catalan: “County Cork”
- Cebuano: “County Cork”
- Central Kurdish: “ھەرێمی کۆرک”
- Chinese: “Cork Kūn”
- Chinese: “寇克郡”
- Chinese: “科克郡”
- Croatian: “Cork (okrug)”
- Croatian: “Cork”
- Czech: “Contae Chorcaí”
- Czech: “Cork”
- Czech: “Corské hrabství”
- Czech: “County Cork”
- Czech: “Hrabství Cork”
- Danish: “Cork County”
- Danish: “County Cork”
- Danish: “Grevskabet Cork”
- Dutch: “Cork”
- Dutch: “County Cork”
- Esperanto: “Contae Chorcaí”
- Esperanto: “County Cork”
- Esperanto: “Graflando Chorcaí”
- Esperanto: “Graflando Cork”
- Estonian: “Corki krahvkond”
- Finnish: “Corkin kreivikunta”
- French: “comté de Cork”
- French: “Comté de Cork”
- French: “Cork”
- Galician: “Condado de Cork”
- Galician: “Contae Chorcaí”
- Georgian: “კორკის საგრაფო”
- German: “County Cork”
- Greek: “κομητεία Κορκ”
- Greek: “Κορκ”
- Gujarati: “કાઉન્ટી કૉર્ક”
- Hebrew: “מחוז קורק”
- Hebrew: “קורק”
- Hindi: “काउंटी कॉर्क”
- Hungarian: “Cork megye”
- Iban: “Kaunti Cork”
- Icelandic: “County Cork”
- Indonesian: “County Cork”
- Irish: “Chontae Chorcaí”
- Irish: “Co. Chorcaí”
- Irish: “Contae Chorcaí”
- Irish: “Corcaigh”
- Italian: “contea di Cork”
- Italian: “Contea di Cork”
- Italian: “Cork”
- Italian: “County Cork”
- Japanese: “コーク県”
- Kadazan Dusun: “Watas Cork”
- Kannada: “ಕೌಂಟಿ ಕಾರ್ಕ್”
- Korean: “코크주”
- Kurdish: “County Cork”
- Latin: “Comitatus Corcagiensis”
- Latvian: “Korkas grāfiste”
- Lithuanian: “Korko grafystė”
- Luxembourgish: “County Cork”
- Macedonian: “Корк”
- Malay: “County Cork”
- Malay: “Kaunti Cork”
- Manx: “Coontae Chorkee”
- Marathi: “काउंटी कॉर्क”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Cork Kūn”
- Northern Frisian: “Cork (Graafskap)”
- Northern Frisian: “Cork”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cork”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “County Cork”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Contae Chorcaí”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “County Cork”
- Norwegian: “Cork”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Corcaigscīr”
- Ossetian: “Корк (графад)”
- Ossetian: “Корк”
- Persian: “شهرستان کورک”
- Polish: “Cork”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Cork”
- Portuguese: “Cork”
- Romanian: “comitatul Cork”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Cork”
- Romanian: “Cork”
- Russian: “Графство Корк”
- Russian: “Корк”
- Scots: “Coontie Cork”
- Scots: “Coonty Cork”
- Scots: “Cork Coontie”
- Scots: “Cork Coonty”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Contae Chorcaí”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Contae Chorcaighe”
- Serbian: “Kork”
- Serbian: “Корк”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Cork”
- Serbo-Croatian: “County Cork”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Grofovija Cork”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kork”
- Sinhala: “කොර්ක් ප්රාන්තය”
- Slovak: “Contae Chorcaí”
- Slovak: “Cork”
- Slovak: “County Cork”
- Slovenian: “County Cork”
- Spanish: “Condado de Cork”
- Spanish: “Cork”
- Spanish: “County Cork”
- Swahili: “Wilaya ya Cork”
- Swedish: “Cork”
- Swedish: “County Cork”
- Swedish: “Oysterhaven”
- Tajik: “Vilojati Kork”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Корк”
- Tamil: “கவுண்டி கார்க்”
- Telugu: “కౌంటీ కార్క్”
- Thai: “เมืองหลวงคอร์ก”
- Tok Pisin: “Kaunti Cork”
- Turkish: “Co Chorcaí”
- Turkish: “Co Cork”
- Turkish: “Co. Chorcaí”
- Turkish: “Co. Cork”
- Turkish: “Contae Chorcaí”
- Turkish: “Corcaigh ilçesi”
- Turkish: “Corcaigh”
- Turkish: “Cork Co.”
- Turkish: “Cork County”
- Turkish: “Cork ilçesi”
- Turkish: “Cork Kontluğu”
- Turkish: “IE-CO”
- Ukrainian: “графство Корк”
- Ukrainian: “Корк (графство)”
- Ukrainian: “Корк”
- Urdu: “کاؤنٹی کورک”
- Vietnamese: “Hạt Cork”
- Vlaams: “County Cork”
- Welsh: “Swydd Corc”
- Welsh: “Swydd Cork”
- Western Panjabi: “کورک”
- Wu Chinese: “科克郡”
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