Midleton

Midleton is famous for its school, Midleton College, founded in 1696, and its distillery, founded in 1825 and modernized in 1975, which manufactures spirits—including Irish whiskey—for distribution worldwide. A pleasant market town set at the head of the Owenacurra estuary, near the northeast corner of Cork Harbour, it has many gray-stone buildings dating mainly from the early 19th century.