Cobh Railway Station

The 19th century Cobh railway station has been repurposed as the Cobh Heritage Centre. The Heritage Centre is a museum of Irish emigration, the Famine, and Irish naval and military history. Queenstown was also the embarkation point for generations of Irish emigrants traveling to the United States, Canada and other parts of the world. DSC_0521

Cobh

August 7th 2017
Returning to Cobh from our shore excursion to Blarney, Cork and Kinsale, we passed several sites of note. One was the Father Mathew Tower (1846). The tower was built to honour Theobald Matthew (1790-1856), a temperance reformer, popularly known as Father Matthew. Another was the Clonmel Church (The Old Church), a ruin today. The graves of 193 victims of the Lusitania sinking are in the Old Church ... read more

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Celtic tribes arrived on the island between 600-150 B.C. Invasions by Norsemen that began in the late 8th century were finally ended when King Brian BORU defeated the Danes in 1014. English invasions began in the 12th century and set off more than se... ... read more

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