The game is strongest in the west of the county and in Cork city.

There is, too, a marked contrast in landscape history between the west of the county and the east.

The oldest rocks are found in the west and north of the county, the youngest in the east.

It is within the Gaeltacht, an Irish-speaking area, in the west of the county.

There are several strongly Irish-speaking areas in the west of the county.

The west of the county remained in Hungary.

The hundred, that covers the south west of the historic county, has an area larger than the modern borough.

There are also various Independent Schools particularly, as mentioned above, in rural parts and the west of the county.

Gaelic has survived, in a limited form, in the far west of the county.

The city is in the south west of the historic county of Lancashire.