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.","It is generally thought that Norse Viking, Leif Erikson, was the first European to arrive on the island of Newfoundland, now the easternmost province of Canada.<\/strong> He arrived there in the year 1000 and established L'Anse aux Meadows, the only known Viking settlement in North America outside of Greenland. This site remains a historical site in Canada and it is located on the north coast of the island.","With coast line along the English Channel and access routes to the Isle of Wright, Hampshire (Hants) <\/strong>has two of the largest cities well known in history, Southampton and Portsmouth which are administered separately. Originally named after Southampton which was a settlement, it is now one of the most affluent counties in England. Home to famous writers Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, as well as the childhood home of Florence Nightingale and birth place of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. It has been occupied since the end of the last Ice Age around 12,000 BCE when sea levels were lower and the land bridge was too attached to Europe. ",null],"lnksHoverSummaryImgURL":[null,"\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/books.webp?pos=floatRight","","\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/castle1.webp","","","","","\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/Hampshire England.webp?pos=floatRight",null],"mode":"f","s":"Twomey","sU":"TOOMEY","oC":"IR","o":"Irish","o2":null,"cOk":true,"c":"\/dpreview\/TOOMEY\/IR\/Twomey\/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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