County Cork Travel Guide
Ireland’s culinary capital and the gateway to the south-west
County Cork is a county of superlatives. It claims Ireland’s foodie capital, its most visited castle, its most colourful harbour towns, and some of its most dramatic coastline. Cork city pulses with energy — a food scene that punches above its weight internationally, a live music culture that could hold its own anywhere, and a fierce local pride that makes Cork people unlike any others in Ireland. From Kinsale to Skibbereen, Blarney to Baltimore, explore everything this remarkable county has to offer.
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