Things to do
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Cobh Heritage Centre
In the restored Victorian railway station beside the pier, covering the emigration, the convict transports to Australia and the Lusitania sinking eighteen kilometres offshore. It holds the genealogy service for anyone tracing a departure.
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Titanic Experience
The original White Star Line ticket office on the quay, where the last hundred and twenty-three passengers were tendered out to the ship on 11 April 1912. Each visitor is given the identity of one of them and told at the end whether that person lived.
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Deck of Cards
The stepped terrace of West View, a row of narrow painted houses climbing the hill with the cathedral behind them, and the single most photographed street in the county. It is a steep two-minute walk up from the promenade.
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Old Church Cemetery
The graveyard above the town where a hundred and seventy of the Lusitania dead lie in three mass graves, marked by a single memorial. It is a kilometre out of the centre on the Ballymore road.
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Saint Colman's Cathedral
A French Gothic cathedral begun in 1868 and finished in 1915, whose spire of ninety-one metres is the tallest in the country and carries a carillon of forty-nine bells played from a keyboard. It stands directly above the town and is climbed to on foot.
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Spike Island
A star fort in the harbour that served as a monastic site, then the largest convict depot in the British Empire in the 1850s, and a prison until 2004. The ferry runs from Kennedy Pier and the visit is a fixed three and a half hours because there is no other boat back.