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Kinsale in County Cork is one of the most picturesque,
popular and fashionable resorts of the south-west coast
of Ireland. Famous for its beautiful narrow winding
streets and maritime history, it has
yachting, sea angling,
gourmet restaurants and
golf. and art galleries for the visitor to enjoy Kinsale
can easily claim its place amongst Ireland's most
historic locations for this has been a centre of
population, commerce, trade and fishing far beyond
memory and record. In its earliest days the estuary of
the Bandon River gave it great importance as the river
is tidal as far as Innishannon and water transport was
dominant until the 18th Century.
The estuary also provided excellent anchorage for
ancient shipping which went in peril of the vagaries of
the weather.
The Town nestles between the hills and the shoreline, a
maze of narrow streets, never far from the water and
little changed in many hundreds of years. Amongst
buildings of later periods are those of another age with
historical links to the French, Spanish, British and
Americans.
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