There follows a list of some of the travellers who visited West Cork between 1700 and 1920.
| Name | Date | Source | Locations Visited |
| Richard Pococke | 1758 | Pococke’s Tour of south and south-west Ireland in 1758 | |
| Daniel Beaufort | 1788 | Rev. Daniel A Beaufort’s tour of Kerry | Includes Bantry |
| J.W. | 1794 | Walker’s Hibernian Magazine, Oct 1794 | Includes much of our region |
| Chevalier de Latocnaye | 1796, 1797 | Rambles through Ireland by a French emigrant | Dunmanway, Bantry, Glengarriff |
| Joseph Woods | 1809 | A scientific tour through Munster | Clonakilty, Dunmanway, Bantry |
| Lewis Dillwyn | 1809 | Clonakilty, Dunmanway, Bantry, Ballylickey | |
| Anne Plumptre | 1814 & 1815 | Narrative of a Residence in Ireland During the Summer of 1814, and that of 1815 | Clonakilty, Roscarbery, Skibbereen, Bantry, Glengarriff |
| Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau | 1828 | Tour in England, Ireland and France | Glengarriff |
| Charles de Montalembert | 1830 | Rosscarbery, Skibbereen, Baltimore, Skibbereen, Drimoleague, Bantry, Glengarriff | |
| Henry Inglis | 1834 | Ireland in 1834 | Clonakilty, Rosscarbery, Skibbereen, Bantry, Glengarriff |
| Robert Graham | 1835 | A Scottish Whig in Ireland, 1835-1838 (NLI) | Enniskean, Ballineen, Dunmanway, Drimoleague, Bantry, Whiddy Island, Glengarriff |
| Jonathan Binns | 1836 | Miseries and Beauties of Ireland | Clonakilty, Rosscarbery, Skibbereen, Bantry, Hungry Hill, Glengarriff |
| S. and C. Hall | 1841 | Ireland: its scenery, character etc., Volume 1 | Dunmanway, Leap, Lough Hyne, Sherkin, Crookhaven, Bantry, Glengarriff |
| William Makepeace Thackeray | 1842 | The Irish Sketchbook | Dunmanway, Skibbereen, Bantry, Glengarriff |
| Johann Georg Kohl | 1842 | Travels in Ireland | Glengarriff, Bantry |
| Amédée Pichot | 1842 | L’Irelande et le Pays de Galles | Bantry Bay, Glengarriff |
| James Grant | 1844 | Impressions of Ireland and the Irish (NLI Ir 9141 g 45) | Glengarriff, Bantry |
| John O’Hagan | 1844 | Leinster and Munster in the summer of 1844 | Inchigeela, Gogane Barra, Glengarriff, Bantry |
| Asenath Nicholson | 1844-5 | Ireland’s Welcome to the Stranger | Glengarriff |
| Lydia Jane Fisher | 1845 | Letters from the Kingdom of Kerry | Glengarriff |
| Thomas Campbell Foster | 1845-6 | Letters on the Condition of the People of Ireland | Bantry, Schull, West Carbery, Skibbereen |
| Lord John Manners | 1846 | Notes of an Irish Tour (NLI Ir 9141 m 4) | Glengarriff, Bantry, Skibbereen |
| William Bennett | 1847 | Narrative of a Recent Journey… | Adrigole, Glengarriff, Bantry, Skibbereen, via Roscarbery, Clonakilty |
| John East | 1847 | Glimpses of Ireland in 1847 | Clonakilty, Kilmacabea, Roscarbery, Skibbereen, Bantry, Glengarriff, Adrigole, Castletownbere, Bere Island |
| Elihu Burritt | ?1847 | A journal of a visit of three days to Skibbereen, and its neighbourhood. NLI P 1054(14) | |
| Michael Doheny | 1848 | The Felon’s Track | Dunmanway, Ballingeary, Brandon, Skibbereen, Bantry, Glengarriff |
| Daniel Foley | 1848-9 | Missionary tour (NLI P 186B) | Clonakilty, Baltimore, Cape Clear Island, Baltimore, Hare Island, Baltimore, Ballydehob, Schull, Kilmoe, Three Castle Head, Durrus, Bantry, Adrigole, Castletown Bere |
| Archibald G Stark | 1850 | The south of Ireland in 1850 (NLI Joly J 9141) | Clonakilty, Timoleague, Roscarbery, Skibbereen, Dunmaway, Bantry, Glengarriff |
| Sir John Forbes | 1852 | Memorandums made in Ireland | Dunmanway, Drimoleague, Skibbereen, Killeenleagh, Bantry, Glengarriff |
| Edward Francis Collins | 1852 | Brief notes of a short excursion in Ireland ((NLI Ir 94108 p. 44) | Bantry, Glengarriff |
| Nassau Senior | 1852 | Journal of a Visit to Ireland in 1852 | Glengarriff, Dunmanway |
| George William Asplen | 1857 | A Lively Sketch of a Trip to Killarney | Glengarriff |
| Louis Énault | 1857 | Angleterre, Écosse, Irlande: voyage pittoresque | Bantry, Glengarriff |
| Samuel Reynolds Hole | 1858 | A Little Tour in Ireland | Glengarriff |
| William Whittaker Barry | 1865 | A Walking Tour Round Ireland | Glengarriff |
| William O’Connor Morris | 1869 | Letters on the Land Question of Ireland | Dunmanway, Skibbereen, Bantry, Glengarriff |
| James Leigh Joynes | 1882 | The Adventures of a Tourist in Ireland | Glengarriff, Bantry |
| William Henry Hall | 1883 | Gleanings in Ireland after the Land Acts | Bantry, Glengarriff |
| Alexander Innes Shand | 1884 | Letters from the West of Ireland | Glengarriff, Bantry |
| H. Saint-Thomas | 1886 | Paddy’s Dreams and John Bull’s nightmare | Glengarriff, Bantry |
| Wilfred Scawen Blunt | 1886, 7, 8 | The Land War in Ireland | Skibbereen, Baltimore, Bantry, Glengarriff |
| Pierre Julien Hamard | 1886 | En Irlande | Glengarriff, Bantry |
| Matthew Woods | 1887 | Rambles of a Physician | Bantry, Glengarriff |
| Jules Paul Tardivel | 1888 | Notes de Voyage en France | Bantry, Glengarriff |
| Marianne de Bovet | 1889 | Three Months Tour in Ireland | Bantry, Glengarriff |
| Charles Legras | 1897 | Terre d’Irelande | Bantry, Bantry Bay, Glengarriff |
| Albert LeRoy Bartlett | 1898 | A Golden Way | Bantry, Glengarriff |
| Jan Baziel Martens | 1898 | Reis in Ierland | Bantry, Glengarriff |
| F.J. Lardeur | 1900/1 | Sur les Chemins d’Irlande | Bantry, Glengarriff |
| William Alexander Houston Collisson | 1906-7 | Dr Collisson in and on Ireland | Skibbereen, Bantry, Glengarriff |
| Rudolf Trebitsch | 1907 | Ein Ausflug nach Irland | Bantry, Glengarriff |
| Robert Lynd | ?1909 | Rambles in Ireland | Glengarriff, Bantry |
| Burton Egbert Stevenson | 1913 | The charm of Ireland | Glengarriff |
| Richard Arnold Bermann | 1913 | Irland | Glengarriff |
| Ibrahim Rashad | 1919 | An Egyptian in Ireland | Bantry, Glengarriff |