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Drombeg stone circle (also known as The Druid's Altar) is a small axial stone circle located 2.4 km (1.5 mi) east of Glandore, County Cork, Ireland. [3] [4]Although not an especially significant example, Drombeg is one of the most visited megalithic sites in Ireland, and is protected under the National Monuments Act. [5]
The Augustinian Priory of St Mary, most commonly referred to as Bridgetown Priory and also as Bridgetown Abbey, is a ruined 13th-century Augustinian monastery of the Canons regular of St. Victor. It is located in Castletownroche, County Cork, Ireland near where the River Awbeg meets the Blackwater. Once an affluent monastery, it was dissolved ...
Carrigaphooca Castle ( Irish: Caisleán Charraig a' Phúca meaning "castle on the rock of the fairy"; the word púca translates as ghost or fairy) [2] is a ruined five storey rectangular tower house situated on a steep-sided rock overlooking the River Sullane. It is located 6 km west of Macroom, County Cork, Ireland, in an area once known as ...
The hospital has its origins in the Cork Union Workhouse and Infirmary which was designed by George Wilkinson and completed in 1841. [1] [2] A large three-storey block was added to the north of the site. [2] The facility became the Cork District Hospital in 1898 and later became the Cork County Home and Hospital.
County Cork(Irish: Contae Chorcaí) is the largest and the southernmost countyof Ireland, named after the city of Cork, the state's second-largest city. It is in the provinceof Munsterand the Southern Region. Its largest market towns are Mallow, Macroom, Midleton, and Skibbereen. As of 2022[update], the county had a population of 584,156 ...
Abbey, Ard na mBrathar ('monks' height). Burial ground, friary iron working site. Aghaghooheen, Achadh Ui Ghuithin (Guheen's field) Ahil Beg and More, Athchoill (regrown wood). Standing stone. Ahildotia, Athchoill Doite (burned regrown wood) Ardaturrish Beg and More, Ard na dTuras (height of the pilgrimage). Burial ground coastal promontory fort.
List of public art in Cork city. This is a list of public art on permanent public display in Cork city, Ireland. The list applies only to works of public art accessible in a public space; it does not include artwork on display inside museums. Public art may include sculptures, statues, monuments, memorials, murals and mosaics.
Goleen is located towards the south-western end of the Mizen Peninsula, in West Cork. The land surrounding the village is unsuitable for farming, being hilly and rocky with limited soil cover. Mizen Head, at the southern tip of the Mizen peninsula, about five miles from the village, is often claimed to be the most southerly point on the island ...