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Cobh/Cork, Ireleand

On our second day we anchored at the Port of Cobh Cruise Pier. We did the Cork's Countryside and Kinsale Bus tour which took us to Ft. Charles and Kinsale and back.
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We arrived in the Port of Cork at around 8:00 am so got some interesting light as we coming in.
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We arrived in the Port of Cork at around 8:00 am so got some interesting light as we coming in.

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  • We arrived in the Port of Cork at around 8:00 am so got some interesting light as we coming in.
  • Cobh (/ˈkoʊv/ kohv, Irish: an Cóbh), known from 1850 until 1920 as Queenstown, is a popular tourist seaport town on the south coast of County Cork, Ireland. Cobh is on the south side of Great Island in Cork Harbour and almost 100,000 cruise liner passengers and crew arrive in the town each year when their ships berth right in the centre of the town at Ireland's only dedicated Cruise Terminal. T
  • I love taking pictures of the tug/pilot boats that take us in and out of port.
  • One of the major transatlantic Irish ports, Cobh was the departure point for 2.5 million of the six million Irish people who emigrated to North America between 1848 and 1950.
  • The town has remained virtually unchanged since RMS Titanic departed from Cork Harbour in 1912, with the streetscape and piers still much the same.
  • Kinsale, 25km south of Cork city, enjoys a glorious setting at the head of a sheltered harbour around the mouth of the Bandon River. Two imposing forts and a fine tower-house remain as evidence of its former strategic importance as a trading port
  • In 1333, under a charter granted by King Edward III of England, the Corporation of Kinsale was established to undertake local government in the town.[7] The corporation existed for over 500 years until the passing of the Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Act 1840, when local government in Kinsale was transferred to the Town Commissioners who had been elected in the town since 1828. These Town Commissioners became the Kinsale Council under the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898. In 2011, Phil Hogan, the Fine Gael Minister for the Environment and Local Government announced that the Kinsale Town Council would be abolished in 2014, along with all other town councils in Ireland. This will be the first time in nearly 700 years that Kinsale will be left without its own elected local authority.<br /> In 1601, Kinsale was the site of a battle in which English forces defeated an Irish/Spanish force, led by the princes Hugh Roe O'Donnell and Hugh O'Neill.[8] Following this battle the Flight of the Earls occurred in which a number of the native Irish aristocrats, including the Earls of Tyrone and Tir Conaill, abandoned their lands and fled to mainland Europe.<br /> In 1690, James II of England and Ireland, following his defeat at the Battle of the Boyne, departed to France.
  • Kinsale (Irish: Cionn tSáile) is a fishing village in County Cork, Ireland. It has a population of 2,257 which increases substantially during the summer months when the tourist season is at its peak and when the boating fraternity arrive in large numbers. The April 2006 census recorded that British nationals made up 9% of the town's population.<br /> <br /> Kinsale is a popular holiday resort for Irish and foreign tourists. Leisure activities include yachting, sea angling, and golf. The town also has several art galleries and a school of English. The town is compact with a quaint air of antiquity in the narrow streets. This is a large yachting marina close to the town centre.
  • We once again had tea, scones, clotted cream and jam as our refreshment stop.
  • I love taking pet shots.
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