County Cork <\/span><\/span>is the largest of the 32 counties of Ireland and in the province of Munster. King Henry the VII named the county the "rebel county" because of its support. County Cork <\/span>borders Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary, and Waterford. Much of what is now County Cork<\/b> was once part of the Kingdom of Daes Mumhan. After the Norman invasion in the 12th century, the McCarthy clan pushed westward into what is now West Cork and County Kerry. West Cork is one of Ireland's leading tourist destinations with all the history, megalithic monuments, and Wild Atlantic Way.<\/span><\/span><\/span> ","A family seat,<\/strong> or simply a seat,<\/strong> was the principal manor of a medieval lord, often an elegant country mansion. It denoted the family held political and economic influences. ","Munster is the southernmost of the four Irish provinces.
As of 2006, it has a population of 1,172,170 people, and contains the counties of Clare, Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary, and Waterford. These","Ireland<\/strong> was first settled around 6000 BC by a race of Middle Stone Age hunter-gatherers who lived there. They tended to hunt such creatures as the megaceros, a giant variety of deer so large that their antlers spanned ten feet. ","The Irish Potato Famine<\/strong>, also known as The Great Famine<\/strong> or Great Hunger<\/strong> lasted from 1845 to 1850 and resulted in a great exodus of Irish refugees fleeing to Britain, Australia, and North America, one of the most dramatic waves of Irish migration in history. It was one of the world's worst disasters in world history - over one million people died in a five year span.","Founded in 1788, New South Wales<\/strong> (NSW) was the first penal colony for England. British explorer, Captain James Cook, first discovered the east coast of Australia while attempting to examine the planet Venus in order to determine the\u00A0distance from the Earth to the Sun\u00A0in 1770, he first named it New Wales, then later New South Wales.","Grattan and the Irish Volunteer army obtained an independent parliament in 1782. Continued Irish unrest and Wolfe Tone's rebellion in 1798 led to the Act of Union in 1800 and Irish representation in British Parliament. Daniel O'Connell's agitation resulted in the granting of Catholic Emancipation in 1829. The Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s decimated the population and caused mass emigration. ","From its founding until the last prison ship set sail in 1868, Van Diemen's Land<\/strong> was the primary penal colony in Australia and over 75,000 convicts were transported there.","The First Fleet<\/strong> departed from Portsmouth, on the south coast of England, on May 13, 1787 and sailed for around 250 days. The fleet was comprised of eleven ships - six prison ships, three equipment ships, and two navy ships, Sirius and Supply. After an extremely long journey, the First Fleet finally arrived at Botany Bay, located in Sydney, New South Wales, between January 18 and 20, 1788.","County Tipperary, (Tipperary, Cross Tipperary, <\/b>Contae Thiobraid Árann<\/b>)<\/b><\/span><\/span>
Named after the town in the province of Munster, County Tipperary<\/b> was established in the early 13th century. Referred to as the "Premier County" in the 1840s, a tribute to the nationalistic feeling in Tipperary. The editor of the Nation newspaper said, "where Tipperary leads, Ireland follows." Following the Norman invasion, the Kingdom of Munster was claimed as a lordship. By 1210, the sheriffdom of Munster shired into Tipperary and Limerick. "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" written by Jack Judge is based on Tipperary since his grandparents came from the county.<\/span><\/span>","Dutch navigator Willem Jansz<\/strong> aboard the Duyfken was the first European to land in waht is now known as Australia<\/strong> in 1606. He charted much of the Gulf of Carpentaria, located on the northern coast of Australia. In 1616, another Dutch captain, Dirk Hartog, landed on the west coast of Australia near Shark Bay.","England<\/strong> is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It occupies more than half of the land of the area. It shares its borders with Wales to the West and Scotland the to its north. Laced by great rivers and small streams, England is a fertile land which has supported a thriving agricultural economy for millenia.",null],"lnksHoverSummaryImgURL":[null,"\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/books.webp?pos=floatRight","","\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/castle1.webp","","","","","","","\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/first_fleet_ship.webp?pos=floatRight","\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/island_of_ireland_sligo.webp?pos=floatRight","","",null],"mode":"f","s":"Keeffe","sU":"OKEEFE","oC":"IR","o":"Irish","o2":null,"cOk":true,"c":"\/dpreview\/OKEEFE\/IR\/Keeffe\/family-crest-coat-of-arms.png","c2":"\/dpreview\/ANDERSON\/SC\/Anderson\/family-crest-coat-of-arms.png","v":"1","sections":["","SettlersUS","SettlersCA","SettlersAU","SettlersNZ","SettlersZA","SettlersWI","Settlers","ContemporaryNotable","ContemporaryNotables","HistoricEvents","RelatedStories","Motto","SuggestedReading","Citations",""]}
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