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Why travel to Cork: Find out the top 10 reasons to visit
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A SNEAK PEAK
A SNEAK PEAK
A SNEAK PEAK
A Sneak Peek into Cork
- Cork is Ireland's second-largest city, behind Dublin.
- It is located on Ireland's south coast and is connected to the sea by Cork Harbour and the Passage West waterway.
- Cork and the surrounding shoreline have a long history of seafaring and trading.
- The old city is effectively an island surrounded by two arms of the Lee River.
- St. Finbarr founded a monastery on a tiny marshy tract where the cathedral of the same name now stands in the seventh century.
- Despite Viking attacks and later English occupation, the town survived and developed over the years.
- Many of Cork's tourist attractions now reflect the city's extensive history, and it's a dynamic, energetic city with much to do.
- International Airport: Cork International Airport (ORK)
- Population: 190,384
- Currency: the Euro
- Time: UTC +0
- Driving side: Right
- Main Electricity: 230 V
- Official Language: Irish
- Religion: Catholic
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HIGHLIGHTS
HIGHLIGHTS
HIGHLIGHTS
Top Tourist Attractions in Cork
- Before selecting what to do in Cork, choose where you want to stay during your holidayin Rebel County.
- There are numerous locations to visit in Cork that are slightly off the main path and rarely appear on the covers of travel guides.
- The west of the county is undoubtedly one of the most popular tourist and local destinations in Cork, and for a good reason.
- Cork City is a great place to visit for a weekend getaway. Especially if you appreciate history, food, walks, and traditional pubs when you travel.
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SEASONS TO TRAVEL
SEASONS TO TRAVEL
SEASONS TO TRAVEL
Best Months to Visit Cork
- From June to August, Cork City is open for business.
- It is the driest season, with temperatures ranging between 16 and 20 degrees Celsius (60 and 68 degrees Fahrenheit).
- Summer is the most significant time to visit Cork since it provides the city with the warmest weather, 18 hours of daylight and the least amount of rain.
- While rain can derail your plans, the city quickly recovers and returns to sunny afternoons.
- Travelling to Cork during this time is particularly appealing because of the numerous colourful festivals and activities available.
- Music, food, boat cruises, and wildlife-watching excursions are all part of these celebrations.
- Because this is the busiest year, lodging will almost certainly be more expensive than usual.
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WORTH A VISIT
WORTH A VISIT
WORTH A VISIT
The Best Places to Visit in Cork
Cork City Gaol
- Cork's response to Dublin's Kilmainham Gaol was this prison.
- The government kept Irish rebels here during the Irish War of Independence and the Civil War.
- Constance Markievicz, the revolutionary nationalist who served as second in command at St Stephen's Green during the 1916 Easter Rising, was one of the inmates.
- The gaol, now a museum, is one of the city's most unusual attractions.
The Crawford Art Gallery
- The Crawford Art Gallery, located just across from the Opera House, offers a diverse art collection, ranging from classical paintings to video pieces, all shown in stunning surroundings.
- A selection of Greek and Roman sculpture casts anchors the permanent collection, while new visiting exhibits rotate often.
- The on-site café, surrounded by a collection of the gallery's artworks, is a great place to unwind with a small meal or tea and cake served on old china.
Red Abbey Tower
- There are several historical landmarks in Cork City, but the Red Abbey dates from the 14th century.
- The Abbey, named after the red-tinged sandstone used in its construction, has a beautiful tower that is the city's only extant mediaeval edifice.
- It's nestled away in a residential area, like many of Cork's must-sees, but it's well worth the detour at only a five-minute walk from the city centre.
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DISCOVER MORE
DISCOVER MORE
DISCOVER MORE
Cork Off the Beaten Track
The Everyman Theatre
- The Everyman, dubbed "Cork's pulsating heart of theatre," is a lavishly furnished Victorian theatre housed in a listed structure on MacCurtain Street.
- It attracts the greatest in theatre, comedy, and music, but if you can't obtain tickets, stop by the Palace Bar, where the show's musicians and actors frequently mingle with the crowd.
- The Everyman is the central venue for the annual Guinness Cork Jazz Festival (held in October), so if you want to immerse yourself fully, stay at the neighbouring Metropole Hotel.
The Father Mathew Statue
- The Father Mathew Statue on Cork's St Patrick's Street is a fixture in the city's landscape, as seen by widespread outcry in 2000 when a proposal to relocate it to a less visible location was made.
- During the 1830s and 1840s, Theobald Mathew, a well-known priest in Cork, was at the forefront of the temperance movement (the establishment of abstinence organisations) in Irish cities.
- He was also extensively involved in efforts to alleviate the effects of the cholera epidemic in 1832 and the famine in Cork city from 1845 to 1849.
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CULTURE & TRADITIONS
CULTURE & TRADITIONS
CULTURE & TRADITIONS
Cork Culture and Traditions
- The Cork region offers a rich and diversified cultural offering that is integral to its past, present, and future.
- Cork has always been a location of explorers and philosophers, authors and poets, musicians and painters; it has always been a haven of creativity.
- As part of continuing cultural programmes or as part of a festival or event, Cork's dynamic artistic community is visible on our streets, in our galleries, and on our stages throughout the year.
- This public cultural face displays a very particular character of Cork to the region, the nation, and the world, instilling pride of place in its residents.
- Old and modern landmark buildings can be found all across Cork, and their doors are open as locations to visit, reflect, and engage with our cultural history.
- Libraries, museums, theatres, art centres, music and dance academies, and various activities ranging from opera to street art keep Cork's cultural side alive.
- Concerts, plays, and many types of exhibitions abound in a place where art and culture thrive.
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FOOD FUN FASHION
FOOD FUN FASHION
FOOD FUN FASHION
Cork: Food, Fun & Fashion Guide
Kinsale
#Food
- A 30-minute drive from Dublin, Kinsale was previously known as Ireland's gourmet capital.
- This incredibly gorgeous tiny beach town is once again on an upward epicurean swing, despite losing its path for a while.
- O'Herlihy's Kinsale (OHK) and Saint Francis Provisions are two great and unique tiny cafés that breathe new life into a town that has been at the forefront of Irish cuisine for more than 40 years.
- Fishy is a gorgeous portside affair offering superior seafood, including an excellent take on traditional fish and chips from celebrity chef Martin Shanahan and Marie's wife.
- Bastion delivers excellent produce with precision and finesse and an intelligent wine list and fully deserves its recently awarded Michelin star.
Paradiso
#Food
- This world-famous vegetarian restaurant has been around for a quarter-century and is still going strong.
- Denis Cotter, the chef-owner, has mentored generations of rookie vegetarian cooks through his cookbooks. Paradiso and its farm, Gort na Nain, received Collaboration of the Year at the first World Restaurant Awards in 2018 for Cotter's collaboration with Ultan Walsh, Gort na Nain's outstanding gardener.
- A continually changing seasonal menu includes delicacies such as beautiful ewe's milk cheese cappelloni with sweetcorn, jalapeño, and lime butter (award-winning Cáis na Tre).
- Grilled cauliflower has been honed to perfection in a large, punchy dish with cashew korma, spinach, mustard, and pickled raisins.
The Franciscan Well Brewery
#Food
- Pompeii Pizza has taken a progressive approach to Cork's original craft beer bar during its decade.
- Experimentation is ongoing and producing excellent versions of the typical suspects from the beer garden's wood-fired oven.
- All doughs are made with house-milled Irish heritage grains combined with Italian Tipo 00 flour and a Halloween special featuring butternut pumpkin sauce, provolone, O'Mahony's streaky bacon, and black pepper.
- The cocktail bar upstairs also serves charcuterie and cheese platters.
SuperValu New Service
#Fashion
- With the popularity of online grocery shopping at an all-time high, Delivery and Collection slots in Cork SuperValu stores are quickly filled as soon as they become available on the SuperValu website.
- SuperValu Merchant's Quay has launched a new Home Delivery and Store Collection service to enable the vulnerable and self-isolated to acquire what they need.
- SuperValu Merchant's Quay will have two vans starting Friday, April 24th, delivering essential groceries to consumers in Dillions Cross, Montenotte, St. Luke's, Sundays Well, Tivoli, Bishopstown, Douglas, Maryborough, Togher, and Wilton.
- SuperValu has established social distancing measures, sanitising procedures, and plastic liners for crates to ensure the safety of consumers and employees.
Blackpool
#Fashion
- Blackpool Shopping Centre opened in 2000 and has been in operation for 18 years.
- The Shopping Centre is 18,268 square metres in size, with 8,413 square metres of mall retail and ancillary space, a 6,665 square metre anchor store, and 3,192 square metres of office space.
- It is a Dunnes Stores-anchored centre with 36 retail units and a large surface parking lot with 650 free public parking places.
- The Shopping Centre is designed as a classic single linear mall with Dunnes Stores to the south, which offers a substantial drapery, household, and grocery selection.
- There are two main mall entrances, one from the mid-mall car park and the other from the mall's northern end.
- Two self-contained buildings, Bowler House and the HSE building, outside the north mall entrance, provide additional shop space with offices and a library on the higher levels.
- Soundstore is housed in an 816 square metre first-floor mezzanine apartment connected to the north mall entrance via an escalator, lift, and stairwell.
- The north mall entrance also serves as a natural pedestrian connector between the Shopping Centre and the Retail Park development directly across the street.
Roy Keane theme park
#Fun
- According to a group of multinational businesspeople working on plans to build rollercoasters in his honour, a Roy Keane theme park is on the way.
- The enormous park is slated for a location outside Carrigtwohill, with almost €43 million scheduled to be spent on the Keano-themed sanctuary.
- As a tribute to his time with Cobh, some rides will be labelled as "ramblercoasters" in files seen by CorkBeo.
- A virtual reality stadium with multiple soccer games and a boxing arena where fans may compete against Patrick Viera and Alan Shearer will also be available.
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NATURE & SAFARI
NATURE & SAFARI
NATURE & SAFARI
Cork: Natural Beauty & Safari Adventures
- The primary ecosystems in Glengarriff Woods Nature Reserve include old oak forests and young woodland regenerating in places that have been cleared of non-native conifers in recent years.
- The woods are one of Ireland's outstanding examples of oceanic sessile oak woodland, ranking on par with the Killarney oakwoods in importance.
- Glengarriff Harbour & Woodlands Special Area of Conservation encompasses the Nature Reserve (SAC).
- The fen is located south of the Ballyhoura Mountains in north Cork, in a glacially eroded limestone depression.
- It's a popular wintering spot for thousands of duck and Greenland white-fronted geese, and it's also rich in botanical diversity, with some plant species that aren't found anywhere else in Cork.
- The reserve is 30 hectares in size, with 9 hectares owned by the state and 21 by private individuals.
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EVENTS & FIESTAS
EVENTS & FIESTAS
EVENTS & FIESTAS
Cork Must-Attend Festivals and Events
- Cork Jazz Festival has been celebrated in October for nearly 40 years, and it lights up Cork with the sounds of jazz booming throughout the city centre.
- The Gresham Metropole Hotel, The Imperial Hotel, Moran's Silver Springs Hotel, and many other venues along the Jazz Trail can be found across Cork City.
- Cork Jazz is a fantastic weekend featuring some of the best names in the jazz world.
- Carrigaline On St Stephen's Day, the Wren Boys Street Festival is a big street carnival on Main Street from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., with traffic through the town being diverted.
- People dress up in bright costumes for the Wren Boy custom, and a large crowd gathers to observe and participate in this annual event.
- The South Union Hunt's annual meet, which features 15 pairs of hounds and over 100 horses, is a spectacular sight to behold as they parade through the crowded streets.
- On St. Stephen's Day, Carrigaline is the place to be.
- Ballydehob Jazz Festival, which occurs at the end of April and the beginning of May, features live music in bars and on the streets and street entertainment and a dealer fair where visitors may taste superb cuisine and fine craftwork while listening to the music.
- Today, Michael Buckley, the best saxophonist in Ireland, was one of the headliners.
- Andreas Varady a 12-year-old Limerick guitar prodigy.
- The Samuel Hudson Quartet is led by saxophonist Samuel Hudson, who lives in Berlin.
- Most of the acts are free, and the Ballydehob Jazz Festival is set up in a festival atmosphere.
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