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Village in County Cork, Ireland · Munster

# Aherla

Aherla is a small village in County Cork, Ireland, with a population of 562.

![Aherla](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Glengarriff_Church_of_the_Sacred_Heart_W_2009_09_08.jpg/1920px-Glengarriff_Church_of_the_Sacred_Heart_W_2009_09_08.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

Aherla · Andreas F. Borchert

The place

Aherla is a small village in County Cork, Ireland, with a population of 562. It is in the townlands of Aherla More and Rathard. Aherla is built on a limestone shelf typical of County Cork's ridges and valleys. The village is within the Cork North-West Dáil constituency.

Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aherla), CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

## Worth seeing in and around Aherla

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. Kilcrea Castle Kilcrea Castle is a ruined 15th-century towerhouse and bawn located near the Kilcrea Friary, west of Cork City, Ireland. The tower house and friary were both built by Cormac Laidir MacCarthy, 9th Lord of Muskerry. 1.7 km · 15th-century ruined tower house and bawn · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilcrea_Castle)

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

## Getting to Aherla

**Airports:** Cork (ORK), 17 km · Shannon (SNN), 95 km · Ireland West Knock (NOC), 228 km\

- Shannon → Aherla 95 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · €14–19 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/shannon-to-aherla) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Shannon&to=Aherla)
- Charlestown → Aherla 235 km · quickest by road, 3h 55m · €29–40 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/charlestown-to-aherla) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Charlestown&to=Aherla)
- Dublin → Aherla 235 km · quickest by road, 3h 20m · €28–39 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/dublin-to-aherla) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Dublin&to=Aherla)
- From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Aherla)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

## No local-transport research exists yet for Aherla

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Aherla. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done

1. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 156 km
2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 291 km
3. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 477 km
4. [Isle of Jura](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-jura) GB 10 ways of moving, 19 sources 495 km
5. [Tarbert, Loch Fyne and Kintyre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tarbert-loch-fyne) GB 9 ways of moving, 15 sources 496 km

If you know how people move in Aherla – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Caherla&title=Aherla&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Faherla), and the note gets an entry.

Around it

## Next door to Aherla

- [Farran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/farran) village in Ireland 2.5 km
- [Cloughduv](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cloughduv) village in Munster, Ireland 3.6 km

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