--- title: "Belvelly – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Belvelly, Ireland: Belvelly is a small village on the northern end of the Great Island of Cork Harbour, about four miles north of the town of Cobh, County…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/belvelly" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/belvelly.md" image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/Aerial_view_of_Belvelly%2C_Cobh%2C_Co._Cork_%28cropped%29.jpg" --- Village in County Cork, Ireland # Belvelly Belvelly is a small village on the northern end of the Great Island of Cork Harbour, about four miles north of the town of Cobh, County Cork, Ireland. ![Belvelly](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/Aerial_view_of_Belvelly%2C_Cobh%2C_Co._Cork_%28cropped%29.jpg) Belvelly · Wikimedia Commons The place Belvelly is a small village on the northern end of the Great Island of Cork Harbour, about four miles north of the town of Cobh, County Cork, Ireland. Belvelly is situated at the shortest crossing point between Great Island and the neighbouring Fota Island. Belvelly Bridge connects Great Island to Fota Island, which is in turn connected to the mainland near Carrigtwohill. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belvelly), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Belvelly 3 places 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. St Colman's Cathedral The Cathedral Church of St. Colman, usually known as Cobh Cathedral, or previously Queenstown Cathedral, is a single-spire cathedral in Cobh, Ireland. 3.6 km · cathedral · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Colman%27s_Cathedral,_Cobh) 2. Fota Wildlife Park Fota Wildlife Park is a 100-acre wildlife park located on Fota Island, near Carrigtwohill, County Cork, Ireland. Opened in 1983, it is an independently funded, not-for-profit charity that is one of the leading tourism, wildlife and conservation attractions in Ireland. 1 km · wildlife park on Fota Island, Ireland · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fota_Wildlife_Park) 3. Old Town Hall, Cobh The Old Town Hall is a 19th-century building in Cobh, Ireland. Situated slightly east of the town center, in what is referred to as Lynch's Quay or East Beach, it faces Cork Harbour. 3.7 km · 19th century building in Cobh, Ireland · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Town_Hall,_Cobh) 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 Belvelly **Airports:** Cork (ORK), 14 km · Shannon (SNN), 100 km · Dublin (DUB), 220 km\ **Stations:** Cobh railway station, 3.9 km · Carrigaloe railway station, 2.6 km · Glounthaune railway station, 3.5 km · Fota railway station, 1.9 km · Cove Fort, 3.8 km\ - Shannon → Belvelly 99 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · €14–19 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/shannon-to-belvelly) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Shannon&to=Belvelly) - Dublin → Belvelly 213 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · €26–36 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/dublin-to-belvelly) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Dublin&to=Belvelly) - Charlestown → Belvelly 234 km · quickest by road, 3h 53m · €29–41 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/charlestown-to-belvelly) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Charlestown&to=Belvelly) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Belvelly) 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 Belvelly 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 Belvelly. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get in The ferry runs daily 6:30AM–9:30PM and takes 5 min. - Get in The "East Ferry" sailed from medieval times, latterly cable-hauled, but ceased in 1913. - Get in See Cork#Get in for the ferries from Roscoff and Santander. From [Wikivoyage: Cobh](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Cobh), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09. 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 168 km 2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 263 km 3. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 460 km 4. [Isle of Jura](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-jura) GB 10 ways of moving, 19 sources 482 km 5. [Tarbert, Loch Fyne and Kintyre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tarbert-loch-fyne) GB 9 ways of moving, 15 sources 482 km If you know how people move in Belvelly – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cbelvelly&title=Belvelly&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fbelvelly), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Belvelly - [Cóbh](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cobh) town in Munster, Ireland 3.6 km - [Passage West](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/passage-west) town in Co. Cork, Ireland 2.8 km - [Carrigtwohill](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/carrigtwohill) town in Ireland 2.9 km - [Glounthaune](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/glounthaune) town in Munster, Ireland 3.9 km - [Glenbrook](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/glenbrook) village in Munster, Ireland 3.3 km - [Little Island](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/little-island) civil parish in Munster, Ireland 3.9 km [The place page for Belvelly](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/belvelly) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Ireland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-IE) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/belvelly, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt