Cork. Walk the Island

 

Cork City. Walk the Island.

A work in progress. #walktheisland

Patrick's Bridge

St Mary's, Pope's Quay

St Vincent's Church (Sunday's Well) with the
eponymous bridge in foreground

Mardyke walk begins here at North Mall end and continues to
George Richard Pain's Wellington Bridge, now known as
Thomas Davis Bridge.

Yoga session beginning in Fitzgerald Park

Sunday's Well house from Fitzgerald Park

The Shaky Bridge (officially Daly's Bridge)

County Hall and the Lee, from the Mardyke walk.

County Hall, from just west of Wellington Bridge

The South Channel begins

Kingsley Hotel  (right) and County Hall

Pedestrian Bridge linking the Bon Secours hospital complex
with UCC and Pink Clinic. 

Riverside. Just inside the UCC Western Road gates.

Bridge where the South Channel finds its way under Donovan's Road.

Walk the island is a work in progress. #walktheisland

Wise monkeys

Lapps Quay, including the curved Clarion Hotel

College of Commerce - getting higher!

Topical banner at Connolly Hall.

The new Cumann na mBan pedestrian bridge, over the south channel.

Parliament Bridge

South Gate Bridge

The Merchant (previously Electric)

Bridge and the Unio Building.

Walking in Knockadoon

Walking in Knockadoon

Looking west towards Ballycotton. The tower is one of Ireland’s Napoleonic-era signal towers. There is a restored
tower near the Old Head of Kinsale. Walked here again on Wednesday 18th Sep 2019.

To get to Knockadoon and this lovely walk:

If coming from the east, via Youghal, follow the main Cork road. Turn left when you see the Ballymacoda sign and then turn left in Ballymacoda itself. If coming from Cork city, turn right when you see the Ballymacoda sign. There is an alternative when coming from the city. Turn right at the lights in Castlemartyr and then turn left in Ladysbridge - there is a sign there for Ballymacoda. Enjoy this fabulous walk in East Cork.

Still looking west. Ballycotton is in the distant haze.

The islands and lighthouse of Ballycotton

Ballycotton

Looking east to Youghal, its lighthouse and the mouth of the Blackwater.

That old signal tower.

Bales of straw

The signal tower again

Bales of straw in the fields

Flowers have faded. Now it's all about survival. Get those seeds out there for 2020.

The sky here is often criss-crossed with jet trails. But Wednesday (18.09.2019) was so fine that the
vapour vanished quickly in the dry atmosphere; the trails didn't last long.

Nearing the end of the western part.

Sheep here (and below) graze above the cliffs

Capel Island, also below, is at the eastern side (where you start the walk)