Come To Cork

Towns & Villages

There are more than sixty towns and large villages in County Cork.

Each one is individual and unique. Each has its own special places of interest, original things to do and see, and welcoming places to stay. In fact, so alluring are they that many well-known artists, writers and actors from around the world have made their homes here.

Actor Jeremy Irons, and the director of Chariots of Fire, David Putnam, have both fallen for the charms of Skibbereen and settled there. Nearby, in Ballydehob, poet John Montague and painter William Crozier have second homes, while soccer pundit, Eamon Dunphy has chosen Castletownshend as his haven of West Cork tranquillity.

Across the county in Ballycotton, Angela Lansbury (of Murder She Wrote fame) owns a cottage overlooking the sea. Nor is she the first actor to have fallen in love with East Cork. Marlon Brando spent time here in the 1990s when filming the ill-fated Divine Rapture.

Politicians are invariably attracted to West Cork’s peace and quiet too. Former British Prime Ministers from James Callaghan in the Seventies to Tony Blair more recently both favoured Glandore for their holidays.

We all find our own favourites …