#County Cork

[travelella]

Cobh, County Cork, Ireland

Mark de Jong

[celticculture]

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[gonnaacetheib]

Blarney Castle, County Cork, Ireland

[principiumindividuationis777]

Patrick Cotter O'Brien (1760-1806), of County Cork, Ireland, holds the distinction of being the first person confirmed, in his own lifetime, to be at least eight feet tall, at 8 foot 1 inch (c. 2.46 meters).

Depending on which source one reads, he may have been the first confirmed eight-foot tall person period, though I have read sources claiming that a skeleton was later found of another man, who supposedly lived earlier than O'Brien, and measured at eight feet in length.

Prior to him, there were the reports on Goliath's height, but the Dead Sea Scrolls demonstrated that a simple typographical error had inflated Goliath's height from something around 6 foot 9 (c. 2.06 meters), which means that Goliath was actually about the size of a basketball power forward, up to a fantastical 9 foot 9 (c. 2.97 meters)

[transcendentsyndra]

Breakfast Bread - Irish Soda Bread from County Cork

An easy Irish soda bread uses self-rising flour and lots of raisins for a rich flavor.

[theirishaesthete]

An Unhappy Trinity

Currently for sale: this trio of former almshouses on the outskirts of Glanmire, County Cork. Each slightly different from the others, the buildings, designed by an unknown architect in neo-Gothic style with lattice glazing and triangular Oriel windows, are thought to date from the 1820s and built on the instruction of the Colthurst family, perhaps Sir Nicholas Colthurst who until his death in…

[travelella]

Gougane Barra, County Cork, Ireland

Mark de Jong

[porterdavis]

[saltwaterandstars]

The sea around Cape Clear Island, County Cork, Ireland. It really was this extraordinary turquoise.

[cassietimi]

County Cork, Ireland