Where To Eat
From fine dining to casual favourites
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.
Clonakilty Charity Cycle
RecurringAnnual charity cycle departing from the GAA Sports Complex, typically in September.
West Cork Rally
RecurringMotorsport rally based in Clonakilty, St Patrick's weekend.
Clonakilty Street Carnival
RecurringAnnual town-centre street celebration in June.
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 international recognition (Ireland's first Fairtrade Town in 2003, Great Town at the UK and Ireland Urbanism Awards 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