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Cork

Cork is the second-largest city in the Republic of Ireland, the county town of County Cork, the largest city in the province of Munster and the third-largest on the island of Ireland.

Plan a trip to Cork From Shannon

At the 2022 census, it had a population of 224,004.

Get in

Getting to Cork

  1. 01
    Cork Airport
  2. 02
    Cork Ferry Terminal is at Ringaskiddy

    Cruise liners often visit: they may dock at Cobh or at Ringaskiddy, or in the case of very small liners dock in the City Centre on Horgan's Quay.

  3. 03
    Kent Station is
  4. 04
    Parnell Place off Merchants Quay

    The journey takes about 2 hr 15 min between Newlands Cross and Dunkettle, but the full journey time depends on the levels of congestion between these and destinations in either city..

See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Crawford Art Gallery

    The permanent collection includes paintings by Jack Yeats and Sean Keating, and a series of plaster casts of classical statues, which King George IV found tedious.

  2. 02
    Elizabeth Fort

    The original fort built in 1601 was just timber and earth, and the citizens made short work of it.

  3. 03
    St Fin Barre's Cathedral

    Saint Fin Barre (550-623 AD) was a preacher who spent his last 17 years hereabouts.

  4. 04
    Nano Nagle Place

    Honora Nagle (1718-1784) pioneered Catholic education for girls in an era when that was repressed by the Penal Laws.

  5. 05
    Church of St Anne

    Shandon (Shandon Bells), Church St T23 YN88,.

  6. 06
    Cathedral of St Mary and St Anne

    This is the neo-Gothic Roman Catholic cathedral, opened in 1808.

Do

Things to do

What's on? Listen to Cork 96 on 96.4 MHz, C103 on 102.6 MHz, or Red FM on 106.1 MHz. Read Cork Independent, The Echo, The Cork, The Corkman or Cork Beo. Cork City Tours operate a hop-on hop-off bus tour of the city, as well as excursions out to the Jameson Distillery, Mizen Head, and Ring of Kerry. They run May-Sep, and in 2023 the city tour is €18 adult, €16 conc, €7 child.

  1. 01
    Páirc Ui Chaoimh

    This 45,000 capacity stadium hosts the biggest games.

  2. 02
    Cork City FC

    "The Rebel Army" were relegated in 2025 - they're a yo-yo team and now play soccer in League of Ireland First Division, the second tier.

Eat

Where to eat

Eating places and bars are everywhere, but especially on MacCurtain Street, Washington Street and Oliver Plunkett Street.

How locals move

Getting around Cork the local way

  • Get inIn summer there are car ferries from Roscoff (15 hr) twice a week, operated by Brittany Ferries.
  • Get inIn 2026, a new daily Hibernia Lines ferry launched to Boulogne-sur-mer.

From Wikivoyage: Cork, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.