Cobh, County Cork : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Cobh. You may be able to find further references to Cobh in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place Type of entry Source
COVE, commonly called the COVE of CORK a sea-port, market, and post-town Lewis:Ireland
Queenstown seaport and market town Bartholomew

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Cobh within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller Section No. of Refs.
Arthur Young 11th to 20th September 1776: Cork 3
John Wesley 1751-3: Wesley's Marriage; Cornwall Smugglers; Illness and Recovery 2
Arthur Young 21st to 30th September 1776: Cork and Kerry 2
Arthur Young Appendix, Itinerary 1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Historical Gazetteer
Haulbowline Island 1 2
Carrigaloe 0 1
Spike Island 1 2
Great Island 0 2
Monkstown 1 2
Clonmel 0 1
Barnahely 1 2
Loughbeg 0 1
Ballybricken 2 0
Templerobin 0 1
Passage West 5 2
Marmullane 0 2
Whitegate 0 2
Coolmore 4 0
Clashavodig 0 1
Crosshaven 0 2
Aghada 0 2
Little Island 0 2
Templebreedy 0 2
Trabolgan 0 2

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for Cobh. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
COVE Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (London: S. LEWIS & Co., 1837).
John Wesley The Journal of John Wesley (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Christian Classics Ethereal Library, 2000).
Arthur Young A Tour in Ireland, made in the years 1776, 1777, and 1778 (London: T. Cadell, 1780).
COVE COMMONLY CALLED THE COVE OF CORK Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (London: S. LEWIS & Co., 1837).
COVE OF CORK John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
QUEENSTOWN John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
THE COVE OF CORK Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (London: S. LEWIS & Co., 1837).

NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:

  • The above links take you to the first reference to this particular version of the name within a book of travel writing, or to the relevant gazetteer entry.
  • Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
  • References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.