
Ireland - County Cork (PDF Chapter)
This is the County Cork chapter from Lonely Planet’s Ireland guidebook.
Ireland’s second city offers a thriving metropolis made glorious by surrounding lush landscape dotted with villages that promise languor and idyll. Outside culturally thriving Cork city, you’ll pass inlets along eroded coastlines and perfectly charming old fishing towns and villages.
- revel in Cork’s brilliant selection of restaurants, pubs, music and theatre
- maps
- hike out to the tip of windswept and wonderfully remote Sheep’s Head Peninsula
- transport
- catch a culinary demonstration or take a cookery class at Ballymaloe
- restaurants & accommodation
Coverage includes: Cork City, Blarney Castle, Fota Island, Cobh, Midleton, Youghal, Kinsale, Clonakilty, Glandore, Union Hall, Skibbereen, Baltimore, Cape Clear Island, Mizen Head Peninsula, Schull, Mizen Head, Sheep’s Head Peninsula, Bantry, Beara Peninsula, Glengarriff, Castletownbere, Dursey Island, Allihies, Lauragh.

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