County Cork, Ireland has to be one of the most splendid locations of a wonderful country, and the small market town of Newmarket is one of its important market towns.
Newmarket town - or, in the classical Irish tongue, Áth Trasna - the intersection at the ford, is in the Barony of Duhallow, in the north-west of County Cork. Bounded by Kerry and Limerick, and with the popular Blackwater river running close by, filled with its unbeatable salmon, it is a part of Ireland that you would be crazy to ignore.
The town of Newmarket itself, with hardly 2,500 inhabitants, perfectly suits the adjective 'sleepy' almost as well as anywhere in the country - unless you appear to be passing through after an excessively important G.A.A. Victory, when the town's own song, Up Up Newmarket, will be heard - they take their sport absolutely seriously here.
Situated on a glen surrounded by the foothills of the Mulmuaghreirk Mountains, where Fionn (the legendary Finn McCool) chased the wild boar and the stag, Newmarket also has numerous interesting pre-historic places surrounding it - a cairn, gallauns (boundary stones) and forts. It is, indeed, an area filled with Irish history; John Philpot Curran was born here and his daughter, Sarah, was the love of rebel head Robert Emmet. Just outside the town is the spectacular Island Wood, home of the Twelve Apostles Tree - it has twelve smaller trunks extending from out of its main trunk. This unfrequented wooded area, with the River Dalua, full of salmon and trout, running beautifully through it, is an aptly popular location for silent contemplation.
The Island Wood in Newmarket town, in fact, has been assimilated into a 100-mile trek known as the Duhallow Trail, investigating this extremely tranquil section of the globe, and passing though Newmarket itself. Other especially important parts of the trail are the attractive town of Kanturk and its well-known castle, managed by An Taisce - The National Trust for Ireland and a magnificent building. At the adjacent graveyard of Clonfert, there is a poignant, small Celtic cross denoting the massed burial site of numerous victims of the Great Famine.
In Newmarket itself you will notice the lively James O'Keefe Institute - originally a housedwelling place built in 1725 for the Aldworth family, a member of which had formed the town a century earlier. it is now a prosperous centre for the local community.
There are no hotels in Newmarket, County Cork, but still there are numerous fine guesthouses or places doing Bed and Breakfast in the area. K.D.'s Fast Food, has a good name for the quality of its menu and its breezy atmosphere and there are other places where you can get good food, such as Marie's Restaurant, in the Main Street. It is for sure a town where you can be assured of a real, warm Cork welcome.
County Cork has a wealth of splendid attractions for visitors. The wonderful city of Cork itself is of course world famous. The exotic blue flag beaches of Ballybunnion are close to hand. Blarney Castle and Killarney are just a short drive away. And there are wonderfully scenic golf courses, lakes, mountains and rivers.
Situated on the R576, at its junction with the R578, Newmarket, one of County Cork's hidden gems, should be part of everyone's program when they're in Ireland's south west corner.
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