Cork facts for kids

Cork could mean:

Places

• Cork (city), a city in the Republic of Ireland
• County Cork, the largest and southernmost county in Ireland
• Cork Harbour, a natural harbour and estuary
• Cork International Airport, just outside the Irish city
• Metropolitan Cork

Objects and materials

• Cork (material), a material used for bottle stoppers and noteboards
• Cork is often used to refer to a stopper (plug)

In botany

• Cork oak (Quercus suber), a species of tree
• Chinese Cork Oak (Quercus variabilis), a species of tree
• Cork-tree, Phellodendron, a genus of plants native to east and northeast Asia
• Cork cambium, a tissue found in woody plants

In sports

• Cork City F.C., a football club
• Cork GAA Gaelic athletic association

People

• Bruce Cork (died 1994), American physicist
• Dominic Cork (born 1971), English cricketer

Other

• Corky is a female orca living in captivity
• Cork taint, a condition when wine is spoilt by a chemical reaction
• Diocese of Cork and Ross (Roman Catholic) formed in the 1950s from two older diocese