Southwest Ireland with Cork and Killarney Features

Experience Southwest Ireland with Cork and Killarney

When To Go

The best times to visit the Southwest are mid-March to June, and September and October. In July and August...

Planning Your Trip

If you're here for a short stay -- three days or fewer -- you'd do well to base yourself in Killarney...

Top Reasons To Go

Blarney Castle: Visitors line up to kiss the Blarney Stone and acquire the gift of gab. Kissing aside...

Rebel Cork

Cork City received its first charter in 1185 from Prince John of Norman England, and it takes its name...

Eating Well in the Southwest

The Southwest, especially County Cork, rivals Dublin as Ireland's food-culture epicenter. Cork has astonishing...

The Great Blasket, which measures roughly 2 mi by half a mile, has no traffic, no pub, no hotel, and...

The City of Angela

The alcoholic pa. The starving, shivering brood of children. The sheep's head for Christmas. The rags...

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