Travel Information

Aer Arann - Budget airline with flights to/from Cork from the UK (Cardiff/Bristol) & France

Aer Lingus - National airline with flight connections within Ireland and to/from Europe, UK & USA

Aer Rianta - Cork International Airport

bmibaby - Budget airline with flights to/from Knock and Birmingham & Manchester
Brittany Ferries (Rosscoff - Cork)
Bus Éireann - Bus Information
Iarnród Éireann - Irish Rail Information
Irish Ferries (daily sailings, Pembroke - Rosslare)
Met Eireann - Weather Information

Ryanair - National budget airline with flights to/from the UK
Stena Line Ferries (daily sailings, Fishguard - Rosslare)
Swansea-Cork Ferries (sailings 3/4 times per week, Swansea - Cork)

Tourist Information

Bantry Visitors Guide
Discover Ireland - official guide
Cork Guide
West Cork Tourism - official guide

West Cork Week - what's on guide

Cork Events & Entertainment

Ahakista Regatta (30th July-2nd August, 2010)

Bandon Music Festival (May 2010)

Bantry Cinema
Ceol on the Coast (Easter Weekend - Kilcrohane village)
Cork Jazz Festival (22nd-25th October 2010, Cork City)
Cork Opera House (Cork City)
Cork Theatre - Everyman Palace Theatre (Cork City)
INEC - Ireland's National Events Centre (Killarney)
Music in Great Irish Houses (5th-10th June 2010) - Fota House (TBC)
West Cork Chamber Music Festival (25th June-3rd July 2010)

West Cork Events

West Cork Food Festival (13th-20th September 2010, Skibbereen)
West Cork Music

West Cork Literary Festival (4th-10th July 2010)
West Cork Tourism 12th Walking Festival (Sheep's Head, May)
What's On in Cork

Local Attractions & Activities

Bantry House & Gardens

Barleycove Beach - Crookhaven, Mizen Head

Barleycove Surf Camp - surfing lessons for adults and lessons & camp days for kids
Blarney Castle

Charles Fort - Kinsale

Cycle Hire - Nigel's Bike Shop, Bantry

Desmond Castle - Kinsale

Glengarriff Woods Nature Reserve
Horse Riding - Ballycumisk, Ballydehob (Mizen Head)
Ilnacullin - Garinish Island
Killarney National Park

Lisselan Estate - including Henry Ford ancestral site, gardens, fishing & golf (Clonakilty)
Lough Hyne - marine nature reserve
Mizen Head Visitor Centre

Model Railway Village - Clonakilty
Sailing - sailing courses & day trips from Schull

Sea Kayaking - Bantry Bay area

Sea Kayaking - Lough Hyne area
Skellig Islands - boat tours to Skellig Michael & Small Skellig
Skibbereen Heritage Centre - Great Famine Commemoration Exhibition

West Cork Quad Adventures - cross country quad biking from Castletownshend (Skibbereen)

Whale Watching - boat trips from Union Hall

Museums & Galleries

Catherine Hammond Gallery - Glengarriff

Cork Butter Museum

Cork Public Museum

Doswell Gallery - Rosscarbery

Heron Gallery - Ahakista & Schull

International Museum of Wine - Desmond Castle, Kinsale

Lewis Glucksman Gallery - University College Cork

Mill Cove Gallery - Castletownbere, Beara Peninsula

The Gate Gallery - Skibbereen

The Lavit Gallery - Cork City

West Cork Arts Centre - Skibbereen