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County Cork ( ) is one of the twenty-six counties of the Republic of Ireland, and also one of the thirty-two counties of Ireland, located within the province of Munster, and was named after the city of Cork ( ). The southernmost of the Irish counties, covering an area of just under 7,500 square kilometres it is by far the largest county in Ireland. Cork is nicknamed "The Rebel County", as a result of the support of the townsmen of Cork in 1491 for Perkin Warbeck, a pretender to the throne of England during the Wars of the Roses. In more recent times, the name has referred to the prominent role Cork played in the Irish War of Independence (1919 � 1921) when it was the scene of most of the fighting, in addition it was an anti-treaty stronghold during the Irish Civil War (1922 � 23).
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