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title: "Top 10 Things To Do in Cork, Ireland (2026 Guide) | Wimup"
description: "The 10 best things to do in Cork, ranked: the English Market, the bells at Shandon, the city gaol, and the harbour trips to Blarney and Spike Island."
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updated: 2026-10-18
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# Top 10 Things To Do in Cork

Cork, Ireland · Europe · By Wimup Editorial, 14 min read

Cork is built on a marsh, which explains almost everything about it. The centre is an island between two channels of the River Lee, the main shopping street curves because it follows a waterway arched over in the 1780s, and the hills on both banks are steep enough that the city reads as three levels rather than one.

## Quick answer

The best things to do in Cork are the English Market, the bell tower at St Anne's Shandon, Cork City Gaol and St Fin Barre's Cathedral, all inside a centre small enough to cross on foot. Give the city two days and keep the second for the harbour: the train to Cobh, the ferry to Spike Island, and Blarney fifteen minutes the other way.

## Quick facts

- **Best months:** May · Jun · Sep
- **Ideal length:** 2 days
- **Budget per day:** €100–160
- **Language:** English, Irish
- **Getting around:** On foot, by bus, by train
- **Tourism board:** [Official site](https://www.purecork.ie/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)

## The 10 best things to do in Cork

### 1. Eat your way through the English Market

Market · Grand Parade, Cork

Cork's municipal market opened in 1788, set up by the Protestant corporation that ran the city, which is where the name comes from. The stalls still sell what almost nowhere else does: tripe and drisheen, crubeens, spiced beef, buttered eggs. The Farmgate Café runs along the balcony with menus built from the stalls below.

- **Time:** 1 hr
- **Cost:** Free to enter
- **Best at:** Late morning, Monday to Saturday
- **Tip:** It opens 8am to 6pm and closes Sundays and bank holidays, so build a Sunday around something else

Links: [Website](https://www.corkcity.ie/en/english-market/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)

### 2. Ring the bells and climb the tower at St Anne's Shandon

Landmark · Church Street, Shandon, Cork

The tower above the north bank is what people picture when they picture Cork: two faces of red sandstone, two of white limestone, a salmon weathervane on top. You ring the bells yourself from a numbered sheet of tunes, then keep climbing to the parapet. The four clock faces never quite agreed, hence the Four-Faced Liar.

- **Time:** 45 min
- **Cost:** Ticketed
- **Best at:** A clear morning
- **Tip:** The stairs narrow badly near the top, so leave big bags at the desk

Links: [Website](https://www.stanneshandon.ie/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)

### 3. Walk the wings of Cork City Gaol

Museum · Convent Avenue, Sunday's Well, Cork

The gaol took its first prisoners in 1824 and its last in 1923, and the castellated front was deliberately grand: the point was to be seen from the city below. The audio tells the social history rather than the ghost stories, which is the right call. The Governor's House holds the studio of Cork's first radio station.

- **Time:** 1.5 hr
- **Cost:** Ticketed
- **Best at:** Afternoon
- **Tip:** It is a steep twenty minutes uphill from the Mardyke, so pair it with Fitzgerald's Park below

Links: [Website](https://corkcitygaol.com/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)

### 4. Look up at St Fin Barre's Cathedral

Cathedral · Bishop Street, Cork

Saint Finbarr founded a monastery on this site around 650, and the city grew out from it. What stands now is William Burges at full volume: consecrated in 1870 and carved from the porch to the roofline. The Golden Angel on the choir roof holds two four-foot trumpets, and its wings are pierced so the wind blows through.

- **Time:** 1 hr
- **Cost:** Ticketed
- **Best at:** Late afternoon light
- **Tip:** Walk round to the east end for the angel before you go inside

### 5. Find the walled gardens at Nano Nagle Place

Heritage site · Douglas Street, Cork

An eighteenth-century convent complex a few streets south of the centre, and the quietest acre in Cork. Nano Nagle ran illegal schools for Catholic children here in the 1750s and is buried in the garden. The museum tells that story without varnish, and the gardens are free to walk into.

- **Time:** 1 hr
- **Cost:** Ticketed museum, free gardens
- **Best at:** Midday
- **Tip:** Approach from Barrack Street or Evergreen Road, because Douglas Street is one way past the door

Links: [Website](https://nanonagleplace.ie/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)

### 6. Take the free view from Elizabeth Fort

Fort · Barrack Street, Cork

A star fort begun in 1601 on the ridge above the south channel, built by an English administration that did not trust the city underneath it. In four centuries it has been a garrison, a convict depot, a barracks and a Garda station. The ramparts give you the spires, the market roofs and Shandon in one turn.

- **Time:** 30 min
- **Cost:** Free
- **Best at:** Golden hour
- **Tip:** Ten minutes on the exhibition, twenty on the walls, in that proportion

Links: [Website](https://www.corkcity.ie/en/elizabeth-fort/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)

### 7. Follow the Marina out to Blackrock Castle Observatory

Observatory · Castle Road, Blackrock, Cork

A fortification has stood on this spit since 1582, and the round tower went up around 1600 to stop pirates carrying vessels out of the harbour. Since 2007 it has been a working observatory and science centre. Get there along the Marina, the tree-lined riverside walk east out of the city, flat the whole way.

- **Time:** 1.5 hr
- **Cost:** Ticketed
- **Best at:** Afternoon
- **Tip:** Walk or cycle the Marina rather than driving; parking at the castle is tight

Links: [Website](https://www.bco.ie/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)

### 8. Cross the Shaky Bridge into Fitzgerald's Park

Park · Mardyke Walk, Cork

Eighteen acres of lawn, pond and sculpture along the south channel, five minutes west of the centre and free. Cork Public Museum sits inside it, and Daly's Bridge crosses to Sunday's Well at the western end. Everyone calls it the Shaky Bridge because it moves under you, and the 2020 restoration left the wobble in.

- **Time:** 1 hr
- **Cost:** Free
- **Best at:** Morning
- **Tip:** Cross the bridge and keep climbing, and you arrive at the gaol from the back

Links: [Cork Public Museum](https://www.corkcity.ie/en/cork-public-museum/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)

### 9. Kiss the stone, then walk the gardens at Blarney Castle

Castle · Blarney, County Cork

The tower house dates from 1446 and the stone is set in the parapet at the top, kissed lying on your back over a drop. It takes ten seconds and there is usually a queue. The eighty-odd acres around the castle are the better half: the Rock Close, an arboretum, and a poison garden growing wolfsbane behind cages.

- **Time:** 3 hr
- **Cost:** Ticketed
- **Best at:** The first hour after opening
- **Tip:** Do the gardens first and the stone last, because the queue builds through the morning

Links: [Website](https://blarneycastle.ie/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)

### 10. Sail out to Spike Island

Island · Kennedy Pier, Cobh, County Cork

An island fortress in the middle of Cork Harbour, reached by ferry from Cobh, covering thirteen centuries: a sixth-century monastery, a star fort raised to hold three thousand, and a spell in the 1850s as the largest prison in the world. It was still a prison in 2004. Named Europe's leading attraction in 2017.

- **Time:** Half day
- **Cost:** Ticketed, ferry included
- **Best at:** A dry, still day
- **Tip:** Book the sailing before you travel and take a layer: the walk between the bastions is exposed

Links: [Website](https://spikeislandcork.ie/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)

## Best restaurants in Cork

Eight kitchens, from two Bib Gourmands to the balcony above the market.

1. **Ichigo Ichie Bistro & Natural Wine** (Japanese · Sheares Street): A Bib Gourmand in the 2026 guide, and a looser reworking of the tasting-menu restaurant that stood here before. Japanese technique, Irish produce, fair prices. [Michelin Guide](https://guide.michelin.com/ie/en/cork/cork/restaurant/ichigo-ichie-bistro-natural-wine?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
2. **Goldie** (Seafood · Oliver Plunkett Street): A Bib Gourmand built entirely on the day's landings from the Cork coast, cooked fin-to-gill. The board changes daily and the room is small. [Michelin Guide](https://guide.michelin.com/ie/en/cork/cork/restaurant/goldie?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
3. **The Glass Curtain** (Modern Irish · MacCurtain Street): A Michelin-listed brasserie in the Victorian Quarter doing modern cooking without ceremony: live fire, a lot of vegetables, and a room you can book at short notice. [Michelin Guide](https://guide.michelin.com/ie/en/cork/cork/restaurant/the-glass-curtain?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
4. **Paradiso** (Vegetarian · Lancaster Quay): Denis Cotter opened it in 1993, when a vegetarian restaurant in Cork was a provocation. Still the most interesting cooking in the city. [Website](https://paradiso.restaurant/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
5. **Greenes** (Modern Irish · MacCurtain Street): Tucked off MacCurtain Street with a dining room that looks onto a floodlit waterfall, which sounds like a gimmick and works. Producer-led Irish cooking. [Website](https://greenesrestaurant.com/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
6. **Miyazaki** (Japanese takeaway · Evergreen Street): Takashi Miyazaki opened this counter near St Fin Barre's in 2015 and it has been queued out the door since. Ramen and donburi, cooked properly. Almost nowhere to sit.
7. **Market Lane** (Irish brasserie · Oliver Plunkett Street): The dependable one: two floors, long hours, a menu from a sandwich to a full dinner, and produce carried up from the English Market.
8. **Farmgate Café** (Irish · English Market): On the balcony above the market, with the stalls it cooks from trading below. Order the tripe and drisheen here, because this is where it is still made properly. [Website](https://www.farmgatecork.ie/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)

## Best pubs in Cork

Six rooms for a pint and a session, from a trad institution to the gig venues.

1. **Sin É** (Trad sessions · Coburg Street): Open since 1889 and the reference point for traditional music in Cork, with sessions most nights. Small, loud and worth arriving before the musicians do. [Cork Heritage Pubs](https://corkheritagepubs.com/sin-e/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
2. **Mutton Lane Inn** (Old pub · Mutton Lane): Down a lane off St Patrick's Street beside the market, candlelit at any hour, and one of the oldest pubs in the city. The best pint to have a conversation over. [Cork Heritage Pubs](https://corkheritagepubs.com/mutton-lane-inn/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
3. **The Long Valley** (Bar and sandwiches · Winthrop Street): A Cork institution known as much for its doorstep sandwiches as its pints, in a room fitted with timber salvaged from an ocean liner.
4. **The Oliver Plunkett** (Live music · Oliver Plunkett Street): The big one on the main pedestrian street: several rooms, food all day and live music most nights. Touristy by Cork standards and good fun. [Website](https://theoliverplunkett.com/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
5. **Coughlan's** (Gig venue · Douglas Street): A front bar, a back room that puts on some of the best small gigs in the country, and a beer garden between them. Check what is on first.
6. **The Corner House** (Folk and trad · Coburg Street): Across the street from Sin É and the other half of that night out. Folk, trad and bluegrass in a long narrow bar, with a bluegrass session that has run for decades.

## Best museums in Cork

Four collections, and one of them is shut for a rebuild.

1. **Crawford Art Gallery** (National cultural institution · Emmet Place): Cork's public art gallery, in the eighteenth-century Custom House. It is closed for a full redevelopment until 2027, so plan around it rather than turning up. [Website](https://crawfordartgallery.ie/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
2. **Cork Public Museum** (Free · Fitzgerald's Park): Open since 1945 in a Georgian house in the park, and free. Archaeology, silver, lace and the revolutionary decade, at a scale you can finish in an hour. [Website](https://www.corkcity.ie/en/cork-public-museum/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
3. **The Butter Museum** (Trade history · O'Connell Square, Shandon): Smaller and stranger than it sounds. By the nineteenth century the world price of butter was set on this hill and casks went to Australia and India. It explains how. [Website](https://thebuttermuseum.com/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
4. **The Glucksman** (Contemporary art · University College Cork): A timber-and-limestone gallery raised on stilts in the woods of the UCC campus. Changing contemporary exhibitions, a good café, and a riverside walk to reach it. [Website](https://www.glucksman.org/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)

## Best breweries & distilleries in Cork

Four places to drink what the county makes, three of them walkable.

1. **Franciscan Well** (Brewpub · North Mall): Brewing on the north channel since 1998, on the site of a monastery whose well gave it the name. A wood-fired pizza kitchen and a covered beer garden out the back. [Website](https://franwellbar.com/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
2. **Rising Sons** (Brewery and taproom · Cornmarket Street): An independent, family-owned microbrewery in the Musgrave Buildings, brewing in the room you drink in. Tours run by arrangement. [Website](https://risingsonsbrewery.com/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
3. **Elbow Lane Brew and Smoke House** (Nano brewery · Oliver Plunkett Street): The smallest brewery in the city, attached to a twenty-four-seat smokehouse down a lane off Oliver Plunkett Street. No room to speak of, so book.
4. **Midleton Distillery Experience** (Whiskey, 25 km east · Midleton): Jameson's home, on a fifteen-acre site holding the old distillery buildings and the largest pot still in the world. The commuter train from Kent Station stops here. [Website](https://www.jamesonwhiskey.com/en/visit-our-distilleries/midleton-distillery-cork/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)

## Best neighborhoods in Cork

Five patches of the city, and what each one is for.

1. **Huguenot Quarter** (City centre · French Church Street): The lanes north of St Patrick's Street, named for the French Protestants who settled here. French Church Street and Paul Street are the pedestrianised heart of the city.
2. **Victorian Quarter** (North of the river · MacCurtain Street): MacCurtain Street and Coburg Street, five minutes over the bridge and a different city: the Everyman's Victorian auditorium, the new restaurants, trad pubs on Coburg.
3. **Shandon** (The hill · North bank): Straight up from the river on the north side: the bell tower, the Butter Museum and streets of small coloured houses on a gradient. The best late light in the city.
4. **Blackrock** (Riverside · 2.5 km east): Downriver at the end of the Marina walk, with the castle and observatory on the point, a marina, and restaurants that serve the neighbourhood rather than visitors.
5. **Sunday's Well** (Above the north bank · West): Terraces on the slope west of Shandon, holding the city gaol and looking down on the Mardyke. Cross the Shaky Bridge and climb: the best short walk in Cork.

## Best day trips in Cork

Six trips, four of them reachable without a car.

1. **Cobh** (25 min by train · Cork Harbour): The harbour town on Great Island, with St Colman's Cathedral over coloured houses. Titanic called here in 1912, and the Titanic Experience is in the ticket office. [Titanic Experience](https://titanicexperiencecobh.ie/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
2. **Kinsale** (25 min by road · South coast): A yachting harbour with narrow painted streets and a lot of restaurants. Charles Fort at Summercove is the reason to walk out of it, with the coast path back. [Charles Fort](https://heritageireland.ie/places-to-visit/charles-fort-military-fortress/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
3. **Youghal** (East Cork · Blackwater estuary): A walled seaside town at the mouth of the Blackwater. The Clock Gate Tower straddles the main street, and the tour climbs four floors to a view off the top. [Cork County Council](https://www.corkcoco.ie/en/visitor/cork-county-council-owned-and-supported-attractions/youghal-clock-gate-tower?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
4. **Ballycotton** (Cliff walk · East Cork coast): A fishing village with a lighthouse on an island offshore and a seven-kilometre cliff walk. Take boots and take the weather seriously.
5. **Gougane Barra** (70 km west · West Cork mountains): A glacial valley with a lake at the bottom, where Saint Finbarr had his hermitage before founding Cork. The oratory is the photograph; the forest park is the walking.
6. **Clonakilty and Inchydoney** (West Cork · Coast road): A west Cork market town that gave its name to the black pudding, with Michael Collins's birthplace nearby. Inchydoney's Blue Flag strand is five kilometres on.

## Best things to do in Cork with kids

Four places built for them, three of them outdoors.

1. **Fota Wildlife Park** (Fota Island · 15 min by train): A hundred acres where much of the collection is not fenced off from you: cheetahs, giraffe, kangaroos and lemurs across open paddocks. The train stops here. [Website](https://www.fotawildlife.ie/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
2. **Lifetime Lab** (Science centre · Lee Road): The old Cork waterworks on the Lee, turned into an interactive science centre with the Victorian steam engines still in place and a playground outside. [Website](https://www.lifetimelab.ie/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
3. **Ballincollig Regional Park** (Free · 8 km west): Riverside meadow and woodland on the western edge of the city, with the ruins of the Royal Gunpowder Mills running through it and flat paths for small legs.
4. **Leisureworld** (Pools · Bishopstown and Churchfield): Two council-run leisure centres with pools, slides and soft play. Not a sight, but the answer to a wet afternoon in a city that has plenty of them.

## Festivals & annual events in Cork (2026)

- **Cork French Film Festival** (Mar): A week of new French-language cinema across the city cinemas, run with the Alliance Française. Early spring.
- **St Patrick's Festival** (Mar): The city parade on 17 March, plus several days of events either side run by the city council. Free, and the centre closes.
- **Cork International Choral Festival** (Apr): Running since 1954, over the late April bank holiday: competitions, commissions and free performances across the city.
- **Cork Harbour Festival** (Jun): Ten days on the water at the turn of June, built around Ocean to City, the rowing race finishing in the city centre.
- **Cork Midsummer Festival** (Jun): Ten days of theatre, dance and site-specific work in mid-June, across around thirty locations, several of them free.
- **Cork Folk Festival** (Oct): Founded in 1979 and spread across more than forty venues: sean-nós and set dancing, bluegrass and cajun alongside the trad.
- **Guinness Cork Jazz Festival** (Oct): The October bank holiday weekend and the biggest date in the calendar: hundreds of musicians across dozens of venues.
- **Cork International Film Festival** (Nov): Ireland's oldest film festival, established in 1956, running eleven days in November with features, shorts and Irish premieres.

## Must-try dishes in Cork, Ireland

- **Tripe and drisheen**: Stomach lining simmered in milk with onion, served with a blood sausage almost nobody still makes.
- **Spiced beef**: Brisket cured for days in salt and spice, boiled, then sliced thin. A Cork Christmas fixture.
- **Crubeens**: Pig's trotters boiled until they give way, sometimes finished in the oven for crackling skin.
- **Bodice**: Cured pork ribs, boiled soft and served with champ or colcannon. The name comes from the shape.
- **Buttered eggs**: Eggs sealed with butter while still warm from the hen, so the shell takes it up and they keep longer.
- **Clonakilty black pudding**: Oatmeal, blood and spice from the west Cork town of the same name. Worth ordering on its own.
- **Seafood chowder**: Landings from the harbour and the west Cork ports, in cream with potato and a slab of brown bread.
- **West Cork farmhouse cheese**: Gubbeen, Milleens, Durrus and Ardrahan. The county led the Irish farmhouse revival.

## Cork transport & airports

- **Cork Airport** (ORK): Ireland's second busiest airport, eight kilometres south of the city. Bus Éireann routes 225 and 226 link the terminal to the centre and Kent Station in about twenty minutes. [Website](https://www.corkairport.com/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- **Trains** (Iarnród Éireann): Kent Station sits on the north bank, ten minutes from the centre on foot. Dublin is about two and a half hours, and the Cobh and Midleton lines leave the same platforms. [Website](https://www.irishrail.ie/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- **Buses** (Bus Éireann): Parnell Place handles the coaches to Dublin, Killarney and west Cork, and city routes fan out from St Patrick's Street. Buses are the only transport to Blarney and Kinsale. [Website](https://www.buseireann.ie/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- **Bikes and taxis** (TFI Bikes): The TFI Bikes scheme has run in Cork since 2014, with the first thirty minutes free. The riverside routes are flat; anything north or south of the channels is not. [Website](https://www.bikeshare.ie/cork.html?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)

## Cork at a glance

- **Country:** Ireland
- **Region:** County Cork, Munster
- **Population:** About 222,000 (city and suburbs, Census 2022)
- **Founded:** Saint Finbarr's monastery, about 650
- **Nickname:** The Rebel City
- **Language:** English, Irish
- **Currency:** Euro (€)
- **Time zone:** GMT (UTC+0), IST (UTC+1) in summer
- **Calling code:** +353 21
- **Airports:** Cork (ORK)
- **Power:** 230V, type G
- **Emergency:** 112 or 999

## Interesting facts

- Corcaigh means marsh. The centre is reclaimed marshland on an island between two channels of the River Lee.
- Cork has been the Rebel City since 1491, when the mayor backed Perkin Warbeck's claim to the English throne and was executed for it.
- The four clock faces on St Anne's Shandon never quite agreed, which is why the tower is called the Four-Faced Liar.
- The world price of butter was set in Cork. The Butter Exchange opened in Shandon in 1776 and the city led the world trade.
- Spike Island was named Europe's Leading Tourist Attraction at the 2017 World Travel Awards.

## Watch

[Cork Travel Guide](https://wimup.com/watch/cork.md), 20:28

## Cork travel FAQ

### How many days do you need in Cork?

Two. Day one covers the island: the English Market, Elizabeth Fort, St Fin Barre's, Nano Nagle Place and the climb to Shandon and the gaol, all on foot. Day two belongs to the harbour, either Cobh and Spike Island by train and ferry or Blarney and Kinsale by road. One day works if you accept seeing the city and none of the water.

### Is the English Market open on Sundays?

No. It trades 8am to 6pm Monday to Saturday and closes on Sundays and bank holidays, so a Sunday in Cork needs a different plan. The Farmgate Café upstairs keeps market hours and serves lunch rather than dinner.

### How do you get from Cork Airport to the city centre?

Bus Éireann routes 225 and 226 run between the terminal, the city centre, Parnell Place bus station and Kent Station, every 30 minutes on weekdays and hourly on Sundays and public holidays. The trip takes about twenty minutes. A taxi covers the eight kilometres in a similar time and costs several times more.

### Is Blarney Castle worth it?

The stone is a ten-second novelty with a queue attached. The gardens are not: eighty-odd acres with the Rock Close, an arboretum and a poison garden, and most visitors give them twenty minutes. Go early, walk the grounds first, and treat the kiss as the thing you do on the way out.

### How do you reach Spike Island?

By ferry from Kennedy Pier in Cobh, and Cobh is about 25 minutes by train from Kent Station in Cork. Sailings are limited and weather dependent, so book before you travel and allow half a day: the guided tour covers thirteen centuries and the island is exposed.

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## Sources

- [Cork tourism board](https://www.purecork.ie/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Eat your way through the English Market (official site)](https://www.corkcity.ie/en/english-market/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Ring the bells and climb the tower at St Anne's Shandon (official site)](https://www.stanneshandon.ie/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Walk the wings of Cork City Gaol (official site)](https://corkcitygaol.com/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Find the walled gardens at Nano Nagle Place (official site)](https://nanonagleplace.ie/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Take the free view from Elizabeth Fort (official site)](https://www.corkcity.ie/en/elizabeth-fort/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Follow the Marina out to Blackrock Castle Observatory (official site)](https://www.bco.ie/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Cross the Shaky Bridge into Fitzgerald's Park: Cork Public Museum](https://www.corkcity.ie/en/cork-public-museum/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Kiss the stone, then walk the gardens at Blarney Castle (official site)](https://blarneycastle.ie/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Sail out to Spike Island (official site)](https://spikeislandcork.ie/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Ichigo Ichie Bistro & Natural Wine: Michelin Guide](https://guide.michelin.com/ie/en/cork/cork/restaurant/ichigo-ichie-bistro-natural-wine?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Goldie: Michelin Guide](https://guide.michelin.com/ie/en/cork/cork/restaurant/goldie?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [The Glass Curtain: Michelin Guide](https://guide.michelin.com/ie/en/cork/cork/restaurant/the-glass-curtain?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Paradiso (official site)](https://paradiso.restaurant/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Greenes (official site)](https://greenesrestaurant.com/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Farmgate Café (official site)](https://www.farmgatecork.ie/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Sin É: Cork Heritage Pubs](https://corkheritagepubs.com/sin-e/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Mutton Lane Inn: Cork Heritage Pubs](https://corkheritagepubs.com/mutton-lane-inn/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [The Oliver Plunkett (official site)](https://theoliverplunkett.com/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Crawford Art Gallery (official site)](https://crawfordartgallery.ie/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [The Butter Museum (official site)](https://thebuttermuseum.com/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [The Glucksman (official site)](https://www.glucksman.org/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Franciscan Well (official site)](https://franwellbar.com/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Rising Sons (official site)](https://risingsonsbrewery.com/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Midleton Distillery Experience (official site)](https://www.jamesonwhiskey.com/en/visit-our-distilleries/midleton-distillery-cork/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Cobh: Titanic Experience](https://titanicexperiencecobh.ie/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Kinsale: Charles Fort](https://heritageireland.ie/places-to-visit/charles-fort-military-fortress/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Youghal: Cork County Council](https://www.corkcoco.ie/en/visitor/cork-county-council-owned-and-supported-attractions/youghal-clock-gate-tower?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Fota Wildlife Park (official site)](https://www.fotawildlife.ie/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Lifetime Lab (official site)](https://www.lifetimelab.ie/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Cork Airport (official site)](https://www.corkairport.com/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Trains (official site)](https://www.irishrail.ie/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Buses (official site)](https://www.buseireann.ie/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Bikes and taxis (official site)](https://www.bikeshare.ie/cork.html?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
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