the city got it's name from the Gaelic word "corcaigh" meaning a marshy place
County Cork
Corcaigh (the gaelic name for Cork) means marsh. Cork city is built in a former marshy area that was drained.
Dublin, Cork, Waterford and Limerick.
In Ulster it is apparently a Scottish name in Antrim, Down, and Tyrone. In Cork and Limerick it is Irish.
The McMullen and McGloin Colony was the Central town of the First Irish Colony. It was founded in 1828.
Cork
Don't know if the river was named for the town, the town for the river, or if both were named for something else, but the river Bandon flows by the town of Bandon in County Cork.
The BLARNEY stone is in Blarney castle in the town of Blarney about 7 miles from the city of Cork in the Irish Republic
Ballincollig (Irish: Baile an Chollaigh) is a town about 8 km west of Cork in County Cork, Province of Munster, Ireland. It is located beside the River Lee on the R608 from Ballincollig to Cork City.
Cork City is the main town in the county of Cork.
No, Cork city is a major city in Co.Cork in the Republic of Ireland, not Northern Ireland.
It is called the Jack Lynch Tunnel, named after the former Irish Taoiseach who was from Cork, where the tunnel is.
Because it is named after a small Irish town.
Omagh
Cork is the city that is furthest south in Ireland, though there are many large towns that are further south than it.
It's named after Lord Baltimore of the Irish Parliament. Baltimore is a town in County Cork in Southern Ireland and that's how he got his name. The name translated into Irish means "Baile an ti mor" meaning town of the big house.
In Cork