| Co. Cork, Ireland must be one of the most spectacular | | | | the Duhallow Trail, exploring this enchantingly serene |
| areas of a beautiful country, and the small market | | | | part of the globe, and passing though Newmarket itself. |
| town of Newmarket is one of its typical market towns. | | | | Other especially remarkable features of the trail are |
| Newmarket - or, in the original Irish expression, 4h | | | | the charming town of Kanturk and its well-known |
| Trasna - the intersection at the ford, is in the Barony of | | | | castle, owned by An Taisce - The National Trust for |
| Duhallow, in the north-west of Co. Cork. Surrounded by | | | | Ireland and a splendid building. At the adjacent |
| Limerick and Kerry, and with the famous Blackwater | | | | graveyard of Clonfert, there is a poignant, small Celtic |
| river drifting close by, brimming with its tasty salmon, it | | | | cross marking the massed burial site of a lot of victims |
| is a section of Ireland that you would be crazy to | | | | of the Great Famine. |
| ignore. | | | | In Newmarket itself you will get to see the lively James |
| The town of Newmarket itself, with hardly 2,500 | | | | O'Keefe Institute - originally a place of residence built in |
| dwellers, befits the adjective 'sleepy' almost as well as | | | | 1725 for the Aldworth family, a member of which had |
| anywhere in the country - unless you get to be | | | | formed the town a century earlier. it is now a |
| passing through after an excessively spectacular | | | | prosperous centre for the local community. |
| G.A.A. Victory, when the town's own anthem, Up Up | | | | There are no hotels in Newmarket, Co. Cork, although |
| Newmarket, will be heard - they take their sport | | | | there are numerous fine guesthouses or places doing |
| tremendously seriously here. | | | | B&B in the area. K.D.'s Fast Food, has a good respect |
| Positioned on a valley surrounded by the foothills of | | | | for the quality of its menu and its breezy aura and |
| the Mulmuaghreirk Mountains, where Fionn (the | | | | there are other areas where you can find good food, |
| legendary Finn McCool) chased the wild boar and the | | | | such as Marie's Restaurant, on the Main Street. It is |
| stag, Newmarket also has numerous amusing | | | | undoubtedly a town where you can be sure of a |
| pre-historic locations near it - a cairn, gallauns | | | | genuine, warm Cork welcome. |
| (boundary stones) and forts. It is, indeed, an area | | | | Co. Cork has a wide range of fascinating attractions |
| soaked in Irish history; John Philpot Curran was born | | | | for visitors. The beautiful city of Cork itself is |
| here and his daughter, Sarah, was the sweetheart of | | | | doubtlessly world acclaimed. The safe blue flag |
| rebel head Robert Emmet. Just outside the town is the | | | | beaches of Ballybunnion are close to hand. Blarney |
| splendid Island Wood, home of the Twelve Apostles | | | | Castle and Killarney are just a short drive. And there |
| Tree - it has twelve smaller trunks extending from out | | | | are wonderfully exotic golf links courses, lakes, hill-sides |
| of its main trunk. This unfrequented wooded area, with | | | | and lakes. |
| the River Dalua, overflowing with salmon and trout, | | | | Situated on the R576, at its junction with the R578, |
| drifting wonderfully through it, is a justly popular location | | | | Newmarket, one of Co. Cork's hidden treasures, is |
| for solitary contemplation. | | | | worth being part of everyone's agenda when they're |
| The Island Wood in Newmarket, County Cork, in fact, | | | | in Ireland's south west corner. |
| has been incorporated into a 100-mile walk known as | | | | |