A vision of Ireland through time
A vision of Ireland from 1821 onwards.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Ireland through time
A vision of Ireland from 1821 onwards.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Cork. You may be able to find further references to Cork in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
| Place | Type of entry | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Cork | capital of county, municipal and parliamentary borough, seaport, and barony | Bartholomew |
| CORK | a sea-port, city, and a county of itself, and the head of a diocese | Lewis:Ireland |
This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Cork within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.
| Traveller | Section | No. of Refs. |
|---|---|---|
| Arthur Young | 21st to 30th September 1776: Cork and Kerry | 23 |
| Arthur Young | 11th to 20th September 1776: Cork | 14 |
| Charles Wesley | May 1 - Aug. 31, 1748: London, Wales and Ireland | 7 |
| Charles Wesley | Sept. 1- Dec. 31, 1748: Ireland and central Wales | 6 |
| John Wesley | 1749-50: Wesley and the Soldiers; In Ireland and Wales Again; Wesley Burned in Effigy | 5 |
| Arthur Young | 1st to 10th September 1776: Galway, Clare, Limerick and Cork | 4 |
| John Wesley | 1751-3: Wesley's Marriage; Cornwall Smugglers; Illness and Recovery | 3 |
| Charles Wesley | 1749: Marriage to Sally Gwynne | 2 |
| Arthur Young | 1st to 10th October 1776: Kerry, Limerick and Tipperary | 2 |
| John Wesley | 1754-6: Retirement in Paddington; Wesley Slandered; Premonitions | 1 |
| John Wesley | 1760-2: Letter to an Editor; Impositions and Declarations; Speaking Statue; Pentecost | 1 |
| Arthur Young | 1st to 10th August 1776: Antrim, Londonderry and Donegal | 1 |
| Arthur Young | 21st to 31st August 1776: Roscommon, Sligo and Mayo | 1 |
This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:
| Place | Mentioned in Travel Writing | Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer |
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