![]() ![]() It is easily accessible and located just four miles south of Cork city center. One stranger, an American asking a local the way to Bantry, was met with the laconic reply, “Well, if I was going to Bantry, I wouldn’t start from here.”Ĭork is also lucky enough to have its own international airport. A spectacular coastal route more than 1,550 miles long which winds its way, never far from the ocean, along the Irish west coast from the Inishowen Peninsula in North Down to the colorful harbor town of Kinsale on the River Bandon in County Cork.Ĭork people are known for their friendliness, their Céad Míle Fáilte (one hundred thousand welcomes), the time they will take to chat their unlocked doors and wry sense of humor. It is here that the Wild Atlantic Way ends-or starts, depending on your travel plans. Retire in Cork ©/bradleyhebdonĪlong with the cultural delights of Cork City, its charms include the county’s wild south-west, five rugged peninsulas point like bony fingers into the Atlantic Ocean Dingle the evocative setting where David Lean’s 1970s movie, Ryan’s Daughter, was filmed-Iveragh, Beara, Sheep’s Head, and Mizen. Arguably, the four regions-north, south, east, and west Cork offer some of the most beautiful, perhaps most remote, scenery to be found anywhere in the Republic of Ireland. Cork, in southern Ireland, is not only the third largest city in the whole of Ireland, it’s also the country’s largest county. ![]()
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