www.ringofcork.ie Ring of • Heritage Trail Built on a deep heritage, the Ring of Cork is the place to be for a unique & memorable holiday. 6 Titanic Experience is the departure point for

Come explore the Ring of Cork Heritage Trail, part of Ireland’s Ancient East. the last 123 passengers who boarded Titanic on it’s This map highlights some examples of the rich heritage to visit in , fateful maiden voyage. Experience an immersive and emotive journey that brings to life the stories of tri- & the greater Cork region. For more, visit www.ringofcork.ie/heritage and see overleaf umph and tragedy behind the Irish passengers on board the ship. Open Seven Days a Week. Visit www.titanicexperiencecobh.ie 2 5 for more details Tel: (021) 4814412

7 Titanic Trial Titanic Trail

historical walking tour of Cobh. This internationally acclaimed tour takes visitors on a gentle 60 minute stroll through the town. Amazing M8 insights into the stories of emigration, Titanic, Lusita- nia and much more are presented in an entertaining and enjoyable way. Operating every day at 11am since Leamlara 11 1998. Book online at www.titanic.ie or call for private tours +353 87 276 7218 12 Meeting point: Commodore hotel. N20 Ardmore 8 Fota House, Arboretum & Gardens is an exclu- N25 Gortroe sive and historic property owned by the Smith-Bar- ry family since 1183. Set on the green and leafy Fota Island, we offer a unique visitor experience with guid- N8 N25 9 N25 ed tours of both the House and Victorian Frameyard N25 Garden delivered by local guides in a setting reminis- cent of Downton Abbey. Open March-September, see Jack Lynch Fota Ballinacurra Tunnel 8 www.fotahouse.com for details or call 021 481 5543 Carrigrohane Little Island Ballymacoda CORK Douglas 9 Jameson Experience. Surrounded by green fields,

N22 R610 Garryvoe barley farmers and flowing fresh water, Midleton Rochestown Ballymore Togher Co. Cork is a whiskey maker’s dream. The Jameson Grange COBH Distillery, Midleton is the beating heart of Ireland’s Waterfall N27 Ballymaloe leading whiskey brand and has become a sort of N28 Monkstown 5 spiritual home for self-proclaimed whiskey nerds. Rostellan Open all year. Guided tours. Tel 021 4613594 Book online www.jamesonwhiskey.com R609 N71 Whitegate 10 Ballycotton Island Lighthouse Tours. 10 Ballygarvan Churchtown A unique & magical experience. Travel in “Yassy”, Inch an open topped boat. Set foot on an an unspoiled, wild Trabolgan and natural Island. Visit the Ballycotton Island summit 2 Guileen and enjoy the stunning views from the lighthouse lan- tern balcony. Explore the Lighthouse. Learn what life Roches Point www.ringofcork.ie was like for the keepers who manned the lighthouse for 141 years. Seasonal tours. Book (021) 4646875 www.ballycottonislandlighthousetours.com 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 11 The Raleigh Quarter. A gem of Ireland’s Ancient 5 East encompassing St. Mary’s 13th Century Colle- giate Church, Graveyard Trail, 13th Century Town Walls Walk and Medieval Gardens. This carefully re- stored historic Quarter tells many stories, the good, the bad and the never before told. Guided tours of Church available all year round. Tel: 024 81814 www.youghal.ie Bandon 12 Youghal Clock Gate Tower is a unique building

in Ireland’s Ancient East that holds many stories – stories of pain, tragedy and rebellion, but also stories of love, friendship and generosity. Stories that are uni- 1 The Ballincollig Royal Gunpowder Mills. 2 is interna- 3 Fortress Spike Island, Prison and 4 Cobh Museum. 5 Cobh The Queenstown Story. The versal and timeless. Open all year round. Opened in 1794 by Charles Henry Leslie. tionally recognized as one of the finest Fort. The Fortress built to defend Built in 1854 in an early English story of Irish emigration; the journeys, Tel: 024 20769. Eleven years later, the barracks were built to pro- remaining examples of a classical coastal an empire that became the largest Gothic style to serve the local Presby- hardship and individual stories of those Book online www.youghalclockgate.ie tect the supply of gunpowder from Napoleon. The Artillery fort in the world. Located in the prison in the world. Set on a beautiful terian congregation. It remained as a who left from Cobh/Queenstown from the Mills are now in ruins but there are over sixty vis- scenic village of Crosshaven Cork har- 104 acre island, join Ireland’s best sto- Church until 1963. Open daily April- 17th to 20th century. An interesting, edu- ible buildings scattered within 130 acres of Ball- bour, the fort is steeped in history from its rytellers as they reveal 1300 years of Oct displaying artefacts, images & cational and emotional journey through incollig Regional Park to explore by looped trails, early fortifications in 1550. Open at Irish history. Open March-November, models illustrating Cobh’s history. History. “Walk in the footsteps of our em- all year round. weekends from May to September. Tel: 021-4811485 Tel: 021 4814240 igrant ancestors”. Tel: 021 4813591 www.ringofcork.ie/ballincollig www.camdenfortmeagher.ie www.spikeislandcork.ie www.cobhmuseum.com www.cobhheritage.com 22 Former Cunard Line Ticket Office, Cobh. This

building was used as a temporary morgue for vic- Ring of Cork Heritage Trail More historical places of interest tims of the Lusitania which was torpedoed and sank in • May, 1915. Now home to a fun indoor activity, Escapade Cobh. www.escapadecobh.com

14 21 29 30 35 23 Bennetts Court, Cobh. Built circa 1840, was the for-

mer residence of the Landlord of Ballymore is now Cuskinny Court Activities and the home to Halloween & Christmas Theatrical experiences www.cuskinnycourt.ie 24 . Owned by the Barry (later Smith-Barry) family for nearly 800 years, it became their residence when their hunting lodge was transformed into Fota House 8 Today, it is also home to Fota Wildlife Park www.fotawildlife.ie and the Fota Island Resort including Golf Club www.fotaisland.ie

25 . Seat of the Barry family from the Watergrasshill 12th century, although the present castle was rebuilt M8 in the 15th century. 26 26 Dungourney 18th Century Farm Cottage. 300 year old cottage now home to Leahy’s Open Farm activi- Leamlara Dungourney YOUGHAL ties and rural farm museum. www.leahysopenfarm.ie Knockraha 27 36 Cistercian Abbey Site, Midleton. St John the Bap- N20 Ardmore tist’s Church and Coach Horse Square stand on the Killeagh N25 site of the Cistercian abbey founded in 1180. Around the 19 Gortroe Blarney Glanmire square are situated Wallis’s Town Hall Bar, Finín’s Res- Mogeely taurant and the Granary Café & Foodstore. MIDLETON www.ringofcork.ie/midleton N8 Glounthaune Carrigtwohill N25 28 N25 35 27 28 The Pugin Building. Designed by AWN Pugin for N25 Castlemartyr 25 Lord Midleton in 1847-1851 as two adjoining town- Jack Lynch 17 18 Fota Ballinacurra Ladysbridge houses with shops on the ground floor. Now a modern Tunnel 24 Carrigrohane Little Island bar: www.jjcoppingers.ie CORK Douglas Ballymacoda 23 N22 13 16 R610 Belvelly Garryvoe 29 Rostellan Dolmen. The only megalithic tomb built Rochestown Ballymore Togher Cloyne on a tidal estuary in Ireland, it can only be seen, or BALLINCOLLIG Grange Passage West COBH 32 33 visited, at low tide. N27 Shanagarry Waterfall Ballymaloe 30 Trabolgan. The Roches, ancestors of Diana, Princess N28 20 21 22 34 Monkstown 29 of Wales, built a house here about 1700. A gate lodge Rostellan built as a triumphal arch remains. A burial tomb contain- Cork Airport Aghada R609 Ballycotton ing the remains of Princess Diana’s maternal N71 Ringaskiddy Whitegate great-great-grandfather, Baron Edmond Roche, can be Ballygarvan Churchtown found in nearby Corkbeg graveyard. Trabolgan is now the site of a holiday village. www.trabolgan.com 30 Inch Trabolgan 14 31 Roches Point. The lighthouse was built in 1835 to Ballinhassig CARRIGALINE 15 31 www.ringofcork.ie replace an earlier tower employed as a lighthouse Crosshaven Guileen from 1817. The last stop of the RMS Titanic before its Roches Point fatal voyage! Myrtleville Town History 32 Cloyne Round Tower and Cathedral. Site of a 6th

Ballincollig & surrounds Carrigaline & surrounds Midleton & surrounds Cobh & surrounds Youghal & surrounds century monastery, the Round Tower stands opposite Ballincollig is steeped in military histo- Despite appearances, Carrigaline is quite “Mainistir na Corann” meaning “The Cobh meaning “Cove” was formely known Youghal comes from a Gaelic word mean- the 13th century St Colman’s cathedral. The philosopher Innishannon Minane George Berkeley, was bishop here. Berkeley, California, is ry. From 18th c to the start of the 20th an old settlement dating to pre Anglo – Abbey of the Choir” Founded by Cister- as Queestown and has become famous for ing “yew wood” It has the best preserved Bridge named after him. c, gunpowder was manufactured in The Norman arrival in 1177. A thriving town cian monks in the 12th century. It is full its stories of emigration, famine and wall town in Ireland. For more details on Gunpowder Mills 1 , now on the site that with a family run hotel. Carrigaline is the of historical buildings. For more heritage, sea tragedy. For more 5 details on heritage, activities, where to eat and where 33 Ballymaloe House. The much extended 15th century

is Ballincollig Regional Park. It is Ireland’s gateway to Crosshaven. For more details activities, award winning restaurants and heritage, activities, where to eat and to stay tower house of the Fizgeralds is now a famous guest- largest industrial archaeological site. For on heritage, activities, where to eat and accommodation where to stay www.ringofcork.ie/youghal house. www.ballymaloe.ie more details on heritage, activities, where where to stay www.ringofcork.ie/midleton www.ringofcork.ie/cobh 34 Shanagarry Medieval Tower. Late medieval tower toBa eatndon and where to stay www.ringofcork.ie/carrigaline www.ringofcork.ie/ballincolligKinsale house of the De la Poer family. Visible ruin adjacent to Shangarry Design Centre. www.kilkennyshop.com/shanagarrydesigncentre

13 Oriel House, 14 Crosshaven 15 Kenneficks Hotel, 16 Maryborough 17 Cork Golf Club, 18 Ditchley House, 19 Glanmire Heritage 20 Cobh Railway Sta- 21 St. Coleman’s Cathe- 35 Castlemartyr Castle. The majestic ruins of the 12th

Ballincollig. Built House. An 18th Crosshaven. Built House, Douglas. Little Island. Little Island. Walks. Explore the tion. Built in 1862. It dral, Carillon, Cobh. Century castle built by the Knights Templar, situated shortly after the Gun- century home belong- by William Kennefick Richard Newenham, Founded in 1888. At A 19th century house, history of Glanmire by once served as Ireland’s Constructed between in Castlemartyr Resort. www.castlemartyrresort.ie Powder Mills in 1794. ing to the Hayes fam- in 1892. The original a Cork merchant built present location since once resident to Albert following heritage walks largest emigration port. 1868 and 1915. The Ca- 36 Youghal Heritage Centre & Town Walking Trail. In 1935 Thomas Tobin ily who lived on this glass door bearing the Maryborough House 1897, a champion- Beamish. Now home developed by Glanmire Home to both Cobh thedral contains the only The centre exhibits artefacts, images and models, il- built an Oriel within site from 1656- 1973. Kennefick name is still in the early 18th cen- ship golf course built to the Radisson BLU Heritage Society; Heritage Centre 5 & church carillon in the Re- lustrating the history of Youghal. Open all year round. the house, thus giving Now a historic house in use. Now home to tury. Now a luxury on limestone quarries. Hotel & Spa, Cork. the , Cobh Maritime build- public of Ireland which Free entry. Located in the Tourist Office. Guided heritage it its name. Now a lux- with accommodation. Cronin’s Pub & Mad hotel. www.corkgolfclub.ie www.radissoncork.ie the Glashaboy ing, a vibrant exhibition with 49 bells is one of the walking tours. Tel: 024 92447 ury hotel. www.crosshavenhouse.ie Fish restaurant. www.maryborough.com & the Rathcooney. & tourism information largest in the British Isles. www.orielhousehotel.ie www.croninspub.com www.glanmireareacork.com space on the platform. design & print by profile 021-4613933