Overlooking Bantry Bay is Bantry House, built through
the efforts of the White family. The house was originally
built in 1720 and has undergone many changes and periods
of growth...{more}
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Built by Dermot McCarthy in 1446, little is left of Blarney
Castle today but the tremendous stone walls, two spiral
stairwells and the dungeons, yet hundreds of thousands,
if not millions, of visitors from all over the world flock
to it to kiss the legendary Blarney Stone each year...{more}
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Blarney Woollen Mills is Irelands most famous retail
outlet. The greater Cork City area has a long-standing
history of merchantiles that dates back to the Viking
era, and Blarney Woollen Mills was the last of the great
wool producers and weavers...{more}
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The Drombeg Stone Circle is one of the finest stone circles
in County Cork, dating back to about 150BC. The circle
has 17 standing stones and measures about 30 feet in diameter...{more}
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Little is known about this castle but it has been around
since about the 14th century. Recently the Irish Archeaological
Service performed a marine "dig" in the old quayside.
Quite a few interesting artifacts were recovered...{more}
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Gougane Barra isn't a town or village, as there's little
more than the chapel, small hotel and barely a handful
of homes here, but this small population in no way spoils
this special setting. There are two areas of interested
at this site - the forest park and the monastery. It's
the monastery visitors will encounter first...{more}
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The Mizen Head Peninsula is the farthest southern point
in Ireland. Travel any farther and you would end up in
the Atlantic Ocean. At Mizen Head you will find the Mizen
Head Lighthouse...{more}
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Puxley Manor is on the estate of Dunboy Castle on the
Beara Peninsula in Castletownbere. This one time grand
estate, on Ireland's southwest coast of County Cork, was
in use until the 1920's when it was bombed out by local
IRA who believed that the owners were storing weapons
for the opposition...{more}
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Between 1848 and 1950 almost six million people emigrated
from Ireland to America. Two and a half million of these
people left from Cobh, pronounced Cove...{more}
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Cobh's original Roman Catholic Church was constructed
in 1808, but it became necessary to replace that church
as the town's prosperity and population grew. By 1864,
it was decided that a new and larger church was needed...{more}
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The monastery at Corcaigh was Finbarr's second settlement.
It was founded as a school and continued to be amongst
the five principle monastic schools of Ireland up to the
10th century. All traces of the early settlement are long
gone, except for the cemetery in which Finbarr was buried.
That site is on the current St Finbarr's Cathedral...{more}
Gougane Barra isn't a town or village, as there's little
more than the chapel, small hotel and barely a handful
of homes here, but this small population in no way spoils
this special setting. There are two areas of interested
at this site - the forest park and the monastery. It's
the monastery visitors will encounter first...{more}
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It's unsure if Timoleague Abbey was founded by MacCarthy
Reach, Lord Carbery in 1240 or William de Barry during
the reign of Edward III because the buildings on the site
date back to various periods...{more}
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