Rugby Tours To Cork

Cork
CORK

The People’s Republic Of Cork

Rugby Tours to Cork is located in Ireland’s second city or as locals would say the real capital.

Located just inland from Ireland’s southwest coast, is a university city with its centre on an island in the River Lee, connected to the sea by Cork Harbour.

Cork City Gaol once held prisoners bound for Australia, and exhibitions relay the building’s history.

The hilltop steeple of 18th-century Shandon Church (officially the Church of Saint Anne) is a symbol of the city.

Originally a monastic settlement and was reputedly founded by Saint Finbarr in the 6th century.

Actually, Cork achieved an urban character at some point between 915 and 922 when Viking settlers founded a trading port.

With Musgrave Irish Independent Park being second home to Munster Rugby there’s always rugby in the city with Dolphin, Sunday’s Well, Cork Con and Highfield rugby clubs.

Tour Information

TOUR HIGHLIGHTS

Our Popular Inclusions for a Rugby Tour to Cork

Attend a rugby training session with Munster coaches.
Watch a Guinness Pro14 fixture.
Shop at the world famous English Market which offers delights from around the world.
Take a boat to Spike Island which was once a prison.
A guided tour around Cork Gaol and relive the lives of the inmates.
Visit Blarney Castle and kiss the legendary Blarney Stone.
Match day on an afternoon playing FootGolf with your teammates.
Learn a new sport by learning how to play Hurling and Football with a GAA experience
Enjoy a guided Walking Tour of Cork City and listen to all the facts and myths of the city.
Visit and enjoy a guided tour around the Jameson Distillery and sample some tasting.
The Cobh Titanic Centre awaits you and relive what it was like for passengers waiting to embark.
Pub time enjoy a guided tour around a Micro Brewery and sample some of its craft beers.
Scuba diving for learners and experienced divers.
Zip Lining for all, from fun and adventure to the ultimate experience.
Underground cave tour, walk through this world famous cave.
Karting is loved by everyone, a great opportunity to be beat your friends in a race of speed.

Training with Munster Rugby

Attend an intensive training session with coaches from Munster Rugby to improve all the aspects of your game and skills.

With Munster’s elite coaching staff you will learn everything you need to know from what your coach has told the staff to improve on.

After a good tough session you will have learn’t new plays to adapt to all scenarios at set pieces.

Most groups do benefit from what they are taught when they return home and implement then into their game plan.

Cork English Food Market

Foods from all over the world as well as traditional Cork foods can be purchased in the English Market located in the heart of Cork City Centre.

The English Market has been serving the population of Cork City since 1788.

During its life it has survived revolution, war, depression, famine and the boom period.

It has always remained as the hub of the city, for it’s inhabitants to meet and gather.

In recent years the market has even been visited by royalty, Queen Elizabeth 11 of England and just recently her son Prince Charles, Prince of Wales.

So when in Cork, the market is a must visit, even just to look around.

The English Market Cork - Rugby Tours To Cork

Blarney Castle

Blarney Castle and the Blarney Stone, everyone wants to kiss the legendary stone.

When lying on your back and head back don’t look down, it’s a long way down but don’t worry you’re in safe hands.

The castle that visitors see today is the 3rd castle to be built on the site.

The first castle was built around the 10th century and was a wooden fort.

In 1210 the second castle was built this time of stone and then the present castle was built in 1446.

Blarney means persuasive elegance, being able to flatter or charm someone.

It comes from the Irish word Bhlarna which means little field, but we all like the first meaning.

Cork Gaol

Visit this old castle like gaol and imagine what it was like for the inmates to live here during their incarceration for such petty crimes.

The gaol was built in 1824 and took 8 years to finish as the years passed by different wings were added to accommodate extra prisoners.

The warders themselves actually lived inside the prison with their families in rooms just a little bigger than the cells the prisoners were housed in.

When the gaol opened it was home to both male and female but of course in different wings.

In 1927 the gaol became a radio station for what is now the nation’s chief broadcaster.