Landmarks
The places that built Cork: the tower it keeps time by, the market it eats from, the fort on the hill, the cathedral where it began, and the street, gallery, church and city hall at its heart.
Shandon & the Bells
The four-faced liar: two sides red sandstone, two white limestone, the colours of Cork.
The English Market
Trading since 1788. Spiced beef and the local specialities: Cork on a plate.
The Butter Exchange
Once the biggest butter market in the world. The money it made still shows in the streets.
St Fin Barre's Cathedral
William Burges's Gothic masterpiece, raised on the ground where Cork began.
Elizabeth Fort
A star fort turned barracks, prison and police station. The best free view in Cork.
Red Abbey Tower
The oldest building in the city: a friary tower that survived siege, fire and seven centuries.
Cork City Hall
Burned in 1920 and rebuilt with British money. The city's grandest civic room, on the Lee.
St Patrick's Street
Pana. Cork's curving main street, built over a channel of the Lee and rebuilt after the fire.
The National Monument
A weeping Ireland above four risings, on the Grand Parade, from 1798 to the Fenians of 1867.
Holy Trinity Church
Father Mathew's Capuchin church, its slender lantern spire mirrored in the river.
Crawford Art Gallery
The old Custom House turned gallery, where Cork's painters learned to draw from plaster gods.
Walk this history
We stand at each of these landmarks on the tour and tell you what happened there, not just what you are looking at.
Read more on each landmark in The Cork Stories Collection, ten illustrated books for €24.99.