County Cork is situated in the
South West of Ireland, it is the largest of all the Irish counties and in many
ways the most varied. Rich farmlands and river valleys contrast with the wild
sandstone hills of the west, and above all there is the magnificent coastline
scooped and fretted by the Atlantic into great bays and secret coves, strewn
with rocky headlands and long soft golden sands.
Charles
Fort is a classic example of a star-shaped fort and has five
bastions, constructed in the late 17th century on the site of an earlier
coastal fortification
