Bantry

Bantry is a metropolis in the civil parish of Kilmocomoge in the barony of Bantry at the coast of West Cork, County Cork, Ireland. It lies at the pinnacle of Bantry Bay, a deep-water gulf extending for 30 km to the west. The Beara peninsula is to the northwest, with Sheep's Head additionally close by, on the peninsula south of Bantry Bay. The attention of the metropolis is a big rectangular, shaped partially by using infilling of the shallow internal harbour. In former times, this accommodated everyday cattle fairs; after modernising as an city plaza, it now capabilities a weekly market and occasional public functions. Bantry is within the Cork South-West constituency, which has 3 seats.

In beyond centuries, Bantry turned into a base for primary pilchard fisheries and become visited by fishing fleets from Spain, France and the Netherlands. It was nonetheless a totally small town in 1689, when it became defined through the Jacobite navy officer and destiny author John Stevens as "a depressing terrible vicinity, infrequently worth the name of a town", together with "7 or 8 small homes, and a few suggest little cottages". Wolfe Tone Square inside the metropolis commemorates Theobald Wolfe Tone.