- Titanic Trail Tours, Meet at Commodore Hotel, ☏ +353 87 276 7218. Daily at 11AM and 2PM. One-hour walking tour explaining the Titanic story in Cobh. Adult €22.50, child €12.50. (updated Aug 2025)
- Cobh Rebel Walking Tours start from the Heritage Centre. Their focus is The Troubles and civil war.
- Sirius Arts Centre has a gallery but is mostly a performance space, open W-Sa 11AM-5PM. It's on the waterfront west side of JFK Park.
- Football: Cobh Ramblers play soccer in the League of Ireland First Division, the Republic's second tier. Their stadium is St Colman's Park (capacity 5000) 200 m uphill from the railway station. The playing season is March-Nov with games usually on Friday evening.
- 1 SailCork, East Ferry Marina P24 D681, ☏ +353 21 481 1237. M-F 9:30AM-5PM, Sa 9AM-1PM. Learn dinghy or cruiser sailing, powerboating and other seafaring skills. (updated Aug 2025)
- Fail to notice what day it is for a couple of weeks, while otherwise being a meticulous travel-planner, if you're the hero of Around the World in 80 Days. If ever a traveller needed the assistance of Wikivoyage, it's the fictional Phineas Fogg, who makes a £20,000 bet that he can circumnavigate and return to London in that time. Homebound from New York and behind schedule he commandeers a vessel, rapidly burning all its coal to maintain top speed then burning its wooden fittings. The fuel runs out off Ireland so he lands at Queenstown, takes the night train up to Dublin then a steamer to Liverpool. He can just about make it, then he's arrested for a few hours. It's soon cleared up but Fogg arrives in London a day late. The author Jules Verne (himself a keen amateur sailor who knew the harbours of Europe) had thought up the final twist several years before he used it in this story. Fogg has gained a day by circling eastbound, it's still only Saturday 21 Dec 1872, and he wins his bet and more importantly true lerv. So we're asked to believe that he never noticed being a day adrift all the way across San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Ireland and Liverpool. The theme tune to the 1956 film version with David Niven, sung by Sinatra, doesn't namecheck Queenstown / Cobh but County Down, for the sake of a clunky rhyme with London Town. Still, if the alternatives were Malay godown or Puget Soun'....
