1. Cork got its nickname ‘The Rebel County’ due to a history of independence from the Viking invasions to the Irish Civil War.
2. Cork is home to Blarney Castle, where popular myth denotes that kissing the Blarney Stone at the top of the Castle will bestow the kisser with the “gift of gab.”
3. The first factory that Ford Motor Company, USA built outside of America was in Cork. Owner Henry Ford’s ancestors were from Cork.
4. St Colman’s Cathedral in Cobh has the largest Carillon Bells in Ireland or the UK (49 bells).
5. All Cork’s main thoroughfares are built on covered over river channels. In fact, in Gaelic Cork ‘Corcaigh’ means “marshy place.”
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6. Ireland’s most southerly point falls at Cobh and is aptly nicknamed ‘The teardrop of Ireland.’ Cobh was also the ill-fated Titanic’s last port of call in 1912.
7. Cork Harbour is said to be the second largest harbour in the world, after Sydney Harbour in Australia. Accordingly, the motto on the coat of arms of Cork City is ‘Statio Bene Fide Carinis’ which means 'A Safe Harbour for Ships’.
8. County Cork is the largest county in Ireland, and Cork City is the third largest city just behind Belfast and Dublin.
9. Sir Walter Raleigh is said to have planted the first potato in Ireland near his home in Youghal around 1588.
10. The 13 arch bridge in the village of Glanworth was built in the mid-15th century structure and is said to be the narrowest and oldest public bridge in everyday use in Europe.
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.thesavageirish | Oct 25, 2011, 05:11 PM EDT
And sure didn't Annie Moore the first american through Ellis island leave from Cork. Wasn't Mary Harris (Mother) Jones from Cork along with the most famous female pirate in the Caribbean Anne Bonny. And don't be forgetting that most formidable of female impersonators, the inimitable Danny La Rue!
jmoconne | Oct 16, 2011, 03:15 PM EDT
I remember that sweet. We called it 'Peg's leg'. It was white.
ellenfromcork | Oct 13, 2011, 06:55 PM EDT
Does anyone remember a candy called Peggy's Leg? I had it as a child in Cork City. It was a stick of candy pink on the outside and white in the middle and sweet enough to make your teeth ache.
sirpeter | Oct 11, 2011, 02:33 PM EDT
@antoman.Not all of them!!lol.I can see a skanger walking up Patrick's hill.No way am I related to him.
Dompedro | Oct 11, 2011, 02:32 PM EDT
"Ireland's most southerly point" ? slainte39's choice appears correct, but Fast Net's an island' and if one insists on the southernmost point on the main, big, island, the place is on the Mizen Peninsula, but most sources say that it is Brow Head and not Mizen Head, but by, perhaps, less than a mile (the Mizen Head tourist people have been known to say that Mizen Head is the "southwestern-most" point in Ireland,putting a fine point on a point, to be sure) ... in any event, it does not appear to be Cobh
antoman | Oct 11, 2011, 12:30 PM EDT
@Sirpeter- Era shure, I'd say you're related to most or all of the people in the photogragh biy.
sirpeter | Oct 11, 2011, 12:01 PM EDT
@antoman!!.If you look really really carefully you can see two extremely good looking guys on St Patricks Bridge.I'd say that's us!! Waaaayy Haaaaay.
pounder | Oct 11, 2011, 10:26 AM EDT
It also has some of the best restaurants in Northern Europe.
slainte39 | Oct 11, 2011, 10:21 AM EDT
Most southern point? How about Fastnet lighthouse.
GraydonWilson | Oct 11, 2011, 09:57 AM EDT
Ah, now, JohnJoe4444 — young Kerry O'Shea is naught but an intern. Other than the geography bit, there weren't any errors. My only objection would be the choices. How can you have a "top ten interesting facts about County Cork" and have no mention of it's being Michael Collins' birthplace? Or Béal na mBláth? Or that it was the westernmost reach of Oliver Cromwell's assaults?
Yardleypa | Oct 11, 2011, 09:53 AM EDT
6 Cobh is not the most southern point I beleive that goes to Mizen head which is in west Cork.
antoman | Oct 11, 2011, 08:57 AM EDT
The city is divided in two by the river Lee. Those who reside on the Northside are Norries and those who reside on the Southside are Sorries. You can distinguish a Norrie from a Sorrie easily enough because Sorries don't wear a watch and can't tell the time.
JamesDempsey | Oct 11, 2011, 08:40 AM EDT
"Irelands most southerly point falls at Cobh" I believe that a quick google search will reveal that brow head in cork is irelands most southerly point
JohnJoe4444 | Oct 11, 2011, 08:31 AM EDT
A stunning piece of research here! Congratulations on your in-depth perceptions. Next issue to determine the religion of the Pope!