Cork takes its name from Corcaigh, ‘marsh’, after the boggy ground where St Finbarr founded his monastery on the River Lee in the sixth century — grown since into Ireland’s largest county.
Contae Chorcaí · The Rebel County · Munster
Cork takes its name from Corcaigh, ‘marsh’, after the boggy ground where St Finbarr founded his monastery on the River Lee in the sixth century — grown since into Ireland’s largest county.
This is the Rebel County, a name earned in 1495 when Cork backed a pretender to the English throne — and Cobh, once Queenstown, the last port of call for the Titanic and, for millions of emigrants, their final glimpse of Ireland.
