A rainy day in Cobh, Ireland turned into one of the best days as we visited the Cobh Heritage Centre. This amazing museum tells the stories of the people who emigrated by ship and stopped at this port before embarking to America or other places around the world. They have computers to trace your family and the ship lists are available. Visitors could trace their family from origin of their ship to their arrival. Most Irish people coming to American came through Queenstown which is now Cobh. Many from Germany, Netherlands, Great Britain, came through this port as well. The museum had you feeling like you were walking in their shoes. Definitely not to be missed.

What a special experience to meet with a genealogist familiar with the local records and communities. We truly enjoyed this very personal experience for the whole family. It is good to know that if you already have a lot of information you may not leave with much more in the way of facts, but you will have more color and resources to dig further.

My dad and I met with the genealogist Christy while the rest of our family enjoyed the Queenstown Experience. It was so interesting to meet with Christy and we were able to uncover some more ancestral history in our hour with him. If you have information on your family and want to do some more digging, this is amazing! It’s so cool to be able to search and access other records and figure out a little more about your ancestors.

A really interesting visit about Cove's history as an important harbour as well as a fantastic exhibition on Titanic

Really nice small village,close to the sea,with beautiful and unique architecture. Is one place you need to visit ,when you will be in Ireland. It doesn’t have much to see,but the village alone,it’s really beautiful.

This heritage centre is located in former railway buildings on the quayside at Cobh. It is literally a 2 minute walk from the station or from a visiting cruise ship as was our case. You can enter the premises without payment where there are a couple of shops and a small cafe. There is an admission charge for the heritage centre. The story if that of Irish emigration and the rural life of Ireland and how it was affected by the potato famine. Well worth a visit - learnt a lot did not realise how many irish people emigrated to England, USA, Canada and Colonies. History of ships and travel in later galleries.

Getting to visit the heritage Center that captures the experience that my ancestors went through in 1900 was very emotional and enjoyable. To learn about what they went through before boarding a ship to emigrate to America was a great experience

The cafe is just so well positioned inside this beautiful building, with history surrounding you and the scones, tea, cappuccino's and soup were beautiful served so carefully and professionally. All of the staff from the cleaning lady who keeps the place so tidy and the bathrooms absolutely spotless, to the office lady and gentleman who patiently helped us and the cafe staff were so nice and just were doing everything to make the experience a positive one, thank you all so much and every best wish, we will be back!!..

Lots of information about Cobh and it's connection with the Titanic and Lusitania. The cafe has lovely cake and the gift shops are well stocked and not badly priced

Meet with christy keating the genealogist at the center. He was able to find more information for me regarding my family’s Irish roots. Wished I would have had more time. If you book over the internet make sure your request has gone through so as not to be disappointed. Cobh is a lovely town and you can catch the train and go into cork for a visit. Thank you christy for your help, Sharon gingery

We toured the Heritage center and found it very interesting. Lot of history explained. Also, a good place for a quick lunch

Had a great couple of hours in this venue, staff lovely and very friendly, and was fun following the person named on your tickets' journey.

Day 1: We arrived at the Queenstory heritage centre, we firstly looked in the little gift shop. Then we asked the retail assistant ‘are you still open’ she replied yes. Then I went to the reception desk to buy tickets. And the ‘lady’ responded ‘Can you not see the sign? It’s closed bai’ (cork slang). Firstly, I am not your ‘bai’ and it would be nice to be treated with respect. I have worked at a five star tourism attraction and I have a degree in tourism. I doubt this ‘lady’ needs a few lessons in manners and a training course on how to greet customers/tourists. The ‘lady’ had strawberry ginger non-straightened hair. So then we decided to leave because I was disappointed and embarrassed for how someone could talk to a tourist in this way. Why does one member of staff let me through and then another declines is entry? You are either open or closed at 4pm. Maybe you should close at 3:45pm if this centre is so anxious to get closed. Day 2: We came back, I asked to use the toilet to another member of staff she said ‘no only customers can use the toilets’ I said ‘I was here only 2 days ago’ and she replied it was a new day’. She had shoulder length hair looked brown. So then I said ‘okay then’ so my boyfriend went in and described what happened previously to us with the admission desk: he asked her ‘what time do you close at? And she said ‘4pm’ even though we were declined entry when we arrived here before or at 4pm and they didn’t let us in. She replied ‘oh I wasn’t on that day’. She didn’t even point me to the toilets elsewhere in the area. Very bad service I thought it was just one member of staff that was ignorant but seems to be the whole place. I would of thought they would be been jumping to welcome visitors back considering the Covid circumstances, where they have probably missed out on tourists to this area. The fact that we travelled 6 hours to spend a few days in Cork I wouldn’t want these people to be representatives of this area. Manners don’t cost anything. I would NOT recommended this place to any of my family/friends, I wouldn’t want the same situation to happen to them.

You get a great sense of the history of the people, the town and the sea. Staff were very friendly and helpful

Full of information about Cobh/Queenstown well laid out and a fascinating glimpse into the lives of the folk who left either as prisoners or in search of a better life. As with all attractions and things to do in Cobh excellent value for money.