Cobh Heritage Centre: The Queenstown Story
About
The Queenstown Story is the permanent exhibition at the Cobh Heritage Centre, housed in the restored Victorian railway station on Deepwater Quay, the building generations of emigrants passed through on their way to the tenders. It tells the story of the two and a half million people who left through this harbour, the Famine coffin ships, Annie Moore, the Titanic and the Lusitania. A self-guided exhibition with audio in nine languages, and the genealogy service for tracing Cork ancestry.
Photos
Highlights
- ✓Set in the Victorian railway station the emigrants left from
- ✓The emigration story, the coffin ships and Annie Moore
- ✓The Titanic and Lusitania told in their Cobh context
- ✓Self-guided with audio in nine languages and a genealogy service
Tips
- →Open seven days, 9:30-17:30, last admission 16:30
- →Adult €15, family (2+2) €37; concessions on the site
- →Beside the railway station and the free car park
- →Allow an hour to an hour and a half for the exhibition
Best Season
More Heritage Activities
Titanic Experience Cobh
A guided experience in the original White Star Line ticket office, where 123 passengers boarded the Titanic in 1912.
Lusitania Peace Memorial
The memorial in Casement Square to the Lusitania, brought to grief off Kinsale in 1915, her dead buried above Cobh.
Cobh Museum
A small local museum of Great Island's maritime and social history, in the former Scots Church above the harbour.