Cork City - Sight Running

Well, that was a crazy winter, we're back and booking! Give us a call and thanks to our regular Cork school groups for their business again this year! Run into history now and remember it's 1916 Centenary year.....Our Rememberance Run is a great way to learn the turbulent history of Cork!

A Merry Christmas to all our customers wherever the winds have taken you this past year! Rest up, fix those niggles and we hope to see you again! Heart felt thanks and have a great holiday!!!

In the late 16th century the citizens of Cork appealed to Queen Elizabeth I for protection against pirates and invaders. Around 1600 Blackrock tower was then built on the lower estuary. Destroyed by fire in 1722, it was rebuilt for the princely sum if €296! More about this Castle of Blackrock when you run with us!

Cork city voted 4th friendliest city in the world.....https://www.facebook.com/corksredfm/posts/10153072757557060

We can run with groups up to 6 at a time. Any bigger and we feel that the experience becomes less personal. We like to engage with every one! For only €20 per person, an hour running tour of the city will drag you into the real history of Cork and you keep your runs on track! Call....!

Experience the depth of local history. Shandon Bell Tower (you can ring out your message to the world..!) and St. Annes Church built in 1722 after the great fire of Cork in 1690 destroyed the original church. The tower was built with 2 sides of red sandstone and 2 sides of white limestone and is said to have influenced the cork county colours, red and white.

Great Group from France today and we took in Elizabeth fort south of the river. Built in 1601 by Sir George Carew and named after Queen Elizabeth 1. A fort, barracks and prison over the next 300 years, the fort still has cannon ball shot lodged in it's walls!!

Our River Run turns up this unusual history. The Royal Victoria Dockyard and Drydock, Passage West.....in Cork?....Built by William Brown in 1832 and opened by Queen Victoria on her visit to Ireland in 1845. You can only see stuff like this when you run with us so 📞!

After a chest expanding climb to Sunday's Well north of the river, we come across "the best prison in 3 kingdoms" or "the women's prison". Opened on 1824 and
closed in 1923, it once had Countess Markievicz as it's most famous prisoner, rebel, politician and member of parliament....oh and...it's haunted....!👻

We can't run past this, we stop for a few minutes at the first major work of the victorian architect William Burges - St. Finbarre's Cathedral. Begun in 1863 and completed in 1870, early french style and built on the site of at least 2 churches dating back to the 7th century. Don't forget the camera!

We're up and running (run pun!) Call the number, no more boring bus tours! If you really want to see the city and keep your runs ticking over, this is it! See history as you've never seen it!!