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Dec 29, 2023 · 1. Spike Island. Photos courtesy Spike Island Management via Tourism Ireland. Hands-down the best of the many different things to do in Cobh is to take a short ferry ride from the village over to the often-missed Spike Island. Over the past 1,300 years (yes, 1,300), the mighty Spike Island has been home to a 6th-century Monastery, a 24-acre ...
Cobh ( / ˈkoʊv / KOHV, Irish: An Cóbh ), known from 1849 until 1920 as Queenstown, is a seaport town on the south coast of County Cork, Ireland. With a population of 14,418 inhabitants at the 2022 census, [2] Cobh is on the south side of Great Island in Cork Harbour and home to Ireland's only dedicated cruise terminal.
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Set within the original White Star Line ticket office, this exhibition tells the story of all 123 passengers who boarded the ship in Queenstown, as Cobh was then known, on the final leg of Titanic’s ill-fated journey in 1912. Today, the ocean liners that sail into Cobh are every bit as impressive as the “ship that launched a thousand dreams”.
Jan 19, 2024 · Cobh was the departure point for 2.5 million of the six million Irish people who emigrated to North America between 1848 and 1950. Cobh, originally named Queenstown after the visit of Queen ...
- Hendrick Verwey
Once called "the saddest place in all of Ireland", Cobh was the embarkation port of some 2.5 million Irish emigrants fleeing famine and poverty between the 1848 and 1950. Their tale is told in the award winning exhibition centre, the Queenstown Story, housed in the disused Victorian Railway by the dockside. Though a town with a sorrowful past ...
Cobh is a port found in Cork County, Ireland. It was known as Queenstown until 1920. It is a tourist port located on the southern of the Great Island in the Coast of Cork County. It is the home to the only dedicated cruise terminal in Ireland. The port has many Irish names starting with Cove which was its initial name before it was renamed ...
Once known as Queenstown, Cobh has one of the richest histories of any town in Ireland. With deep connections to the Titanic, the Lusitania, the Irish famine, and the centuries of emigration that stamped Irish footprints across the globe. explore cobh's history.
