This website is in the process of being adopted. Please email Tom Keyes,
Cork, Irish Corcaigh (Marsh) county borough, seaport, and county town (seat) of County Cork, Ireland, at the head of Cork Harbour on the River Lee. The centre of the old city is an island in the Lee, and the original site was probably near the Cathedral of St. Fin Barr, whose 7th-century monastery attracted many students and votaries. Cork was raided and burned in 821, 846, and 1012 by Norsemen who eventually settled there and founded a trading centre on the banks of the Lee. The town was walled, and it was granted its first charter in 1172. It was subsequently held by the English for a long period. Cork supported Perkin Warbeck, the pretender to the English throne, when he visited Ireland in 1491�92. The city revolted in favour of Oliver Cromwell in 1649, and in 1690 it was taken by John Churchill, Earl of Marlborough, for William of Orange.
In 1919�20 Cork became a centre of Irish nationalist resistance to British military repression, and parts of the city were burned down by the British in retaliation for the ambush of a military convoy. Further devastation followed the conclusion of the Anglo-Irish treaty in 1921, when Irish Republican forces unwilling to accept the treaty held the city for a time.
Source: http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=26733&tocid=0&query=cork%2C%20ireland
Popular Surnames from County Cork
McCarthy, Callaghan, McAuliffe, Fitzgerald, Sullivan, Murphy, Walsh, Connor and Connell.
Archives and Libraries
Mallow Heritage Centre - North and East
27/28 Bank Place
Mallow
Co Cork
Ireland
Tel: + + 353 22 21778Cork City Ancestral Project - Cork City Research
c/o County Library
Farranlea Road
Cork City
Ireland
+ 353 (0) 21 5469Boole Library
University College
CorkCork Archives Institute
Christchurch
S. Main Street
CorkCork Central Library
Grand Parade
CorkCork County Library
Farranlea Road
CorkCork Genealogical Society
4 Evergreen Villas
Evergreen Road
CorkGenuki-Cork
Query Resources
Lookups
Email Lists
IRL-CORK
Topic: Cork County, Ireland. This list is for more than just genealogy, allowing a broader topic range, and may be chattier than most lists.
For questions about this list, contact the list administrator at
- Subscribing. Clicking on one of the shortcut links below should work, but if your browser doesn't understand them, try these manual instructions: to join IRL-CORK-L, send mail to with the single word subscribe in the message subject and body. To join IRL-CORK-D, do the same thing with
- Unsubscribing. To leave IRL-CORK-L, send mail to with the single word unsubscribe in the message subject and body. To leave IRL-CORK-D, do the same thing with
- Archives. You can search the archives for a specific message or browse them, going from one message to another. Some list archives are not available; if there is a link here to an archive but the link doesn't work, it probably just means that no messages have been posted to that list yet.
CountyCork-L
Topic: the County of Cork, Ireland.
For questions about this list, contact the list administrator at
- Subscribing. Clicking on one of the shortcut links below should work, but if your browser doesn't understand them, try these manual instructions: to join CountyCork-L, send mail to with the single word subscribe in the message subject and body. To join CountyCork-D, do the same thing with
- Unsubscribing. To leave CountyCork-L, send mail to with the single word unsubscribe in the message subject and body. To leave CountyCork-D, do the same thing with
- Archives. You can search the archives for a specific message or browse them, going from one message to another. Some list archives are not available; if there is a link here to an archive but the link doesn't work, it probably just means that no messages have been posted to that list yet.
On-Line Records - Fianna
This site is part of the IrelandGenWeb Project, a non-profit volunteer resource network.
 |
 |
 |
County Cork, IrelandGenWeb Coordinator:
� 2001. County Cork, IrelandGenWeb Project.
