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Cobh

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Many of the people who left Ireland on immigrant ships for the New World departed from Cobh, a pretty fishing port and seaside resort 24 km (15 mi) southeast of Cork City on R624. The Queenstown Story at Cobh Heritage Center, in the old Cobh railway station, re-creates the experience of the million emigrants who left from here between 1750 and the mid-20th century. It also tells the stories of great transatlantic liners, including the Titanic, whose last port of call was Cobh, and the Lusitania, which was sunk by a German submarine off this coast on May 7, 1915. Many of the Lusitania's 1,198 victims are buried in Cobh, which has a memorial to them on the local quay.

021/481-3591. www.cobhheritage.com. EUR 6. Oct.-Apr., daily 9:30-5; May-Sept., daily 9:30-6

The best view of Cobh is from St. Colman's Cathedral, an exuberant neo-Gothic granite church designed by the eminent British architect E. W. Pugin in 1869, and completed in 1919. Inside, granite niches portray scenes of the Roman Catholic Church's history in Ireland, beginning with the arrival of St. Patrick. 021/481-3222. www.cloyne.irl.com. Free.

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