One of the days we spent in Cork, we drove to the nearby Cobh after reading that it was worth the visit. I would have to agree with that assessment. Cobh was one of the main ports of emigration for Ireland, and has a really incredible little museum that shows what people leaving the country went through, especially during the potato famine era. This was also the last top of the Titanic on it’s only voyage.
It was also home to this absolutely ridiculous cathedral, St. Colman’s Cathedral:
I probably should have just named this post – Holy crap look at that church!
Hello there, I am a fellow Cobh man and I just wanted to let you know that no part of the titanic was built there at least not to my knowledge. But the titanic does have a strong connection with the town. While en route from Southampton England to the States the ship made it’s final pickup of passengers from Cobh or Queenstown at the time. That’s probably what you heard through the accent of one of the locals. Anyway nice photos by the way. John
Hey John,
Thanks for the comment. It was last April that I was in Cobh and I must just be remembering wrong. I thought the hull had been built in Cobh and taken to Belfast for completion but I am not finding that information anywhere now that I look for it so it is probably just my memory failing me!