Cobh

Called Queenstown from 1849 to 1920. Some 2.5 million of the 6 million who emigrated from Ireland to North America between 1848 and 1950 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.

In legend, Neimheadh, one of the first colonists of Ireland, landed in Cork Harbour, and the Great Island was called Oileán Ard Neimheadh after him. The Uí Liatháin ruled the area into the early 13th century, then the Barrys. The village of Ballyvoloon overlooked a cove, and a fort was built nearby in 1743; by 1750 Cove was home to seamen and revenue officers. The Water Club, founded at Haulbowline in 1720, is the forerunner of the Royal Cork Yacht Club, the oldest yacht club in the world.

The Napoleonic Wars made the Cove of Cork a Royal Navy port, and later it became a health resort. As Queenstown it was the port of departure for 2.5 million of the 6 million Irish who emigrated to North America between 1848 and 1950, and for many who were transported to Australia. On 11 April 1912 it was the Titanic's last port of call; 123 passengers boarded here, and 44 survived.

Drawn from the History section of the Wikipedia article on Cobh ↗, rewritten here and adding nothing it does not say; licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

• Cloyne Round Tower · round tower · 12 km
• Belvelly Castle · castle · 4 km
• Barryscourt Castle · castle · 6 km
• Blackrock Castle · castle · 9 km
• Dundanion Castle · castle · 10 km
• Ballymaloe House · castle · 15 km

Straight-line distances from the town centre, from each site's documented coordinates.

• 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, for a few years in the mid-19th century probably the biggest prison in the British Empire, holding 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 legend is first described in print in 1785, so the tradition is younger than the wall it sits in.

All of these are pinned on the Hidden Ireland map.