Must-see attractions in Kinsale

  • Charles Fort, Kinsale, Ireland

    Charles Fort

    Kinsale

    One of Europe's best-preserved star-shaped artillery forts, this vast 17th-century fortification would be worth a visit for its spectacular views alone…

  • Desmond Castle

    Kinsale

    Kinsale's roots in the wine trade are on display at this early-16th-century fortified house that was occupied by the Spanish in 1601. Since then it has…

  • Old Head Signal Tower & Lusitania Museum

    Kinsale

    This 200-year-old signal tower houses a museum dedicated to the RMS Lusitania, which was torpedoed by a German U-boat in 1915 with the loss of 1200 lives…

  • St Multose Church

    Kinsale

    This is one of the country's oldest Church of Ireland churches, built around 1190 by the Normans on the site of a 6th-century church. Not much of the…

  • Courthouse & Regional Museum

    Kinsale

    Based in the 17th-century courthouse that was used for the inquest into the sinking of the Lusitania, this eclectic museum contains local curiosities as…

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