IRELAND TRIP DAY 4: Cork-Cobh-Kinsale-Cork. After breakfast we travel to the Cobh Heritage Center. This moving exhibit depicts emigration from Ireland during the Great Famine of the mid 1800’s. It is onto Kinsale, the gourmet capital of Ireland. County Cork’s stellar town is one of the most picturesque, popular and fashionable resorts of Ireland’s south-west coast. It is famous for its beautiful yachting, sea angling, gourmet restaurants and golf. Charles Fort, a popular attraction was constructed in the late 17th century on the site of an earlier coastal fortification. Charles Fort is a classic example of a star-shaped fort and has five bastions. The two seaward bastions, the Devils and the Charles, were for defending the harbor and both are casemated - that is, they have gun embrasures inside as well as on top of the walls. Desmond Castle, (French Prison) Cork Street, Kinsale, built as a custom house by the Earl of Desmond c. AD 1500. Desmond Castle has had a colorful history, ranging from Spanish occupation in 1601 to use as a prison for captured American sailors during the American War of Independence. Known locally as The French Prison after a tragic fire in which 54 prisoners, mainly French seamen, died in 1747. The castle was also used as a borough jail from 1791 to the onset of the Great Famine when it was used as an auxiliary workhouse tending to the starving populace. We return to Cork. Dinner and overnight River Lee Hotel. WE SHALL VISIT MANY PUBS ALONG THE WAY GUIDED By ZIGGY AND GRAHAM FRESH FROM THE STUD FARM.... STAY ALERT FOR DAY # 5 ;-)
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