There are 32 counties in Ireland. Cork is the largest one, so there are 31 counties in Ireland that are smaller than Cork.
Because it is larger than any other county. That is just the way the 32 counties of Ireland developed, with Cork happening to be the largest of all of the counties. Click on the link below to see a map of Ireland showing all of the 32 counties. Cork is the large green one at the bottom. Louth is the smallest; it is the light blue county on the right.
County Cork
Limerick and Cork are the counties that border county Kerry.
Cork - 7500 square kilometres Kerry - 4807 square kilometres Tipperary 4305 square kilometres Clare - 3450 square kilometres Limerick - 2756 square kilometres Waterford - 1857 square kilometres
Geographically they are two counties in the Irish province of Munster and have a short border in the northeast of Cork and southwest of Tipperary. In sport, they can meet in many venues, like Semple Stadium in Thurles in county Tipperary or Pairc Ui Chaoimh or Pairc Ui Rinn, both in county Cork.
No, humans cannot ingest any counties, Irish or not.
The counties where Irish is most commonly spoken are along the west coast of Ireland where there are what are known as Gaeltachts. A Gaeltacht is a region where Irish is spoken. These counties would include Cork, Kerry, Galway, Mayo and Donegal. There are other areas where Irish would be spoken, like parts of county Waterford. All around the country there are schools where Irish is used as the main language.
County Cork
Cork and Kerry are neighbouring counties and have a land border, so it will depend on where exactly you are travelling to and from as to the actual distance.
There are six counties in the Irish province Munster: Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Clare, Waterford and Tipperary.
The counties of Tipperary and Cork are neighbouring counties and share a border. So it depends on what part of Tipperary you are starting from and where in Cork you are going to. At most it would be about 150 miles, or 240 kilometres, but it is likely to be much less than that, as you are unlikely to be wanting to go from the most northern part of county Tipperary to the most southern part of county Cork.
Down, Cork, Mayo.