Cobh

Called Queenstown from 1849 to 1920. Some 2.5 million of the 6 million who emigrated from Ireland left through this harbour, and Annie Moore, the first immigrant processed at Ellis Island in 1892, sailed from here. Titanic's last port of call was Cobh; the Lusitania's dead are buried above the town.

• Kindred Spirits, Midleton · Nine great steel feathers in a circle, honouring the Choctaw Nation's $170 gift to Ireland in 1847 — sent sixteen years after their own Trail of Tears.
• Kinsale · Christmas Eve 1601: the Gaelic order's last throw fails in a dawn attack that went wrong. Nine centuries of Ulster kingship ended here, 300 miles from home.
• Spike Island · Monastery, fortress, the largest prison in the world in the 1850s (2,300 convicts awaiting transportation), then a garrison — 'Ireland's Alcatraz'.
• The Blarney Stone · The goddess Clíodhna told Cormac MacCarthy to kiss a stone before he went to court, and he talked his way out of trouble. Another version puts it before Elizabeth I. The stone was built into the castle in 1446; the word blarney is not recorded until 1785, so the tradition is younger than the wall it sits in.

All of these are pinned on the Hidden Ireland map.