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Charles Fort

TripAdvisor Traveller Rating: 3.5 of 5 stars
TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #1 of 13 attractions in Kinsale
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Attraction type: Historic site
Activities: City walk sightseeing, Driving
Address: Summer Cove Kinsale
Ireland
Tel: 352-21-477-2234

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5 of 5 stars
Bay Area California
20 Aug 2007
1/1 found this review helpful

Take the tour and check out the whole exhibit in the main display area. Tour guides are knowledgable and excited to tell you all you ever wanted to know (and more) about the history of this fascinating fort. The best part is you can adventure all around the fort with little being blocked off from visitors. Stop by the Bulman... more

7 Jan 2004
1/4 found this review helpful

I was so moved by the atmosphere of the castle-like fortress, the turretted walls, the tunnel to the sea and the crumbling barracks walls, that I wrote a novel called, can you imagine, Charles Fort. A pen pal of mine, Anais Nin, convinced me to change the name but it didn't matter since it was never published. Back in the... more

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5 of 5 stars
A TripAdvisor Member
5 May 2002
3/5 found this review helpful

My Great Grandfather was Denis Varley who was born in Fairhill, Galway in 1845. In 1865 he enlisted into the 39th Regt of Foot and was sent almost immediately to Bermuda. In 1868 however he was stationed at Fort Charles in Kinsale and research at the Public Records Office revealed many details of his time there. Denis was just an... more

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5 of 5 stars
A TripAdvisor Member
20 Feb 2002
4/4 found this review helpful

My parents sat, open-mouthed and in shock, this summer as, thirty years on, I told them of my memories of Charles Fort. We took several family summer holidays in Cork, often with a colleague of my father and his family. Their children were older, by several years, than my brother and I, and I don't think my parents had truly... more

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Summer Cove, Kinsale, Ireland
Tel: 352-21-477-2234