Historical Interest

Places and Things to Visit and See connected with the Diocese:

The Site on which Cork City was founded

The Church and Town of Sir Walter Raleigh

The Boyle Memorial, First Earl of Cork and Boyles’ Law

The Church of George Berkeley, Bishop and Philosopher

The Church of John Brinkley, Bishop and Astronomer

Ring the Bells of Shandon

The ‘Four-Faced Liar’

The Memorial to the Woman Freemason

The Grave of George Boole, Mathematician, Philosopher and Logician

The Hexagonal ‘Round’ Tower

The Grave of Sam Maguire, whose name is given to the GAA All-Ireland Football Trophy

Collector of 2000 Traditional Melodies – Memorial to Canon Goodman

The grave and memorial of Edith Somerville (The Irish R.M.)

A Lifeboat Oar from the Lusitania

Teampol na mBocht (Church of the Poor): Famine Church

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