Where To Eat
From fine dining seafood to fish and chips by the harbour
An Súgán
Long-running seafood-led restaurant and bar in a Georgian building on Wolfe Tone Street.
Kirby's @ The Whale's Tail
Fine-dining seafood and West Cork produce on the Waterfront, next to the distillery.
Camus Farm Field Kitchen
Organic farm-to-table restaurant on Camus Farm, open Thursday to Saturday in season.
What's On
Upcoming events and things happening in Clonakilty
Clonakilty Waterfront Marathon
RecurringAnnual marathon and shorter-distance road race, first weekend of December.
West Cork Rally
RecurringMotorsport rally based in Clonakilty, St Patrick's weekend.
Clonakilty Street Carnival
RecurringAnnual town-centre street celebration in June.
South of Ireland Band Championships & Old Time Fayre
RecurringBrass band competition and a recreated 1920s-30s streetscape, held around 1 July.
Clonakilty Right Now
Clonakilty sits at the head of a sheltered tidal bay, so it catches less of the raw Atlantic wind than the open headlands further west, but pack a proper waterproof anyway: West Cork weather changes fast and a clear morning on Pearse Street can turn to driving rain by the time you reach Inchydoney.
🌊 Tides
Clonakilty Harbour
Heights relative to chart datum
A market town that earns its colour
Clonakilty was chartered in 1613 and has been a working market town ever since, but what visitors notice first is how deliberately kept the place is: painted shopfronts, a genuinely walkable centre, and a town that has picked up national and European recognition (Ireland's first Fairtrade Town in 2003, Best Place to Live/Best Town in Europe in 2017) without losing the everyday businesses that make a town work.
It's also inseparable from two things: food, chiefly the black pudding that carries the town's name into supermarkets across Ireland and beyond, and Michael Collins, born a few kilometres away at Woodfield and schooled in the town before the Irish War of Independence made him a national figure.
Painted shopfronts on Pearse Street, Clonakilty