--- title: "Blarney – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Blarney, Ireland: Blarney is a suburban town within the administrative area of Cork City in Ireland. Nearby: Blarney Stone, Blarney Castle, Carrigrohane…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/blarney" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/blarney.md" image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/BlarneyCastleView1.jpg" --- Town in County Cork, Ireland · Munster # Blarney Blarney is a suburban town within the administrative area of Cork City in Ireland. ![Blarney](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/BlarneyCastleView1.jpg) Blarney · Wikimedia Commons The place Blarney is a suburban town within the administrative area of Cork City in Ireland. It is located approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) north-west of the city centre. It is the site of Blarney Castle, home of the legendary Blarney Stone. Blarney is part of the Dáil constituency of Cork North-Central. It is surrounded by the suburban villages of Tower, Cloghroe and Kerry Pike, all on the outskirts of Cork City. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blarney), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Blarney 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. Blarney Stone The Blarney Stone is a block of Carboniferous limestone built into the battlements of Blarney Castle, Blarney, about 8 kilometres from the centre of Cork City, Ireland. According to legend, kissing the stone endows the kisser with the gift of the gab. 500 m · Carboniferous limestone in Blarney Castle, Ireland, associated with the legend that kissing it endows one with the skill of speaking eloquently · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blarney_Stone) 2. Blarney Castle Blarney Castle is a medieval stronghold in Blarney, a town in Cork, Ireland. Though earlier fortifications were built on the same spot, the current keep was built by the MacCarthy of Muskerry dynasty, a cadet branch of the Kings of Desmond, and dates from 1446. 600 m · castle in Ireland · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blarney_Castle) 3. Carrigrohane Castle Carrigrohane Castle is located in the village of Carrigrohane, barony of Barretts in County Cork, Ireland. It is situated on a rocky cliff-edge which overlooks the River Lee. 4.1 km · castle in Ireland · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrigrohane_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. See ## What Wikivoyage says to see 1. Blarney Castle There was probably a wooden fort here by the 10th century, and a stone castle was built in 1210 but destroyed. From [Wikivoyage: Blarney](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Blarney), CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us. Do ## Things to do Muskerry Golf Club has two 18-hole courses, the McKenzie and the Burren. It's 3 km west at Tower Model Village, which sounds more interesting than it is. There's no trace of a tower, and the "model" means the 20th-century concept of a planned suburb, there are no tiny plastic figures on platforms waiting for a Hornby Dublo train to pull in. Blarney Golf Club is a pitch & putt 2 km northeast by the caravan park. From [Wikivoyage: Blarney](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Blarney), CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us. Eat ## Where to eat 1. Muskerry Arms The Square, Blarney T23 XE95 (by Castle),. From [Wikivoyage: Blarney](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Blarney), CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us. Go there ## Getting to Blarney **Airports:** Cork (ORK), 11 km · Shannon (SNN), 89 km · Ireland West Knock (NOC), 220 km\ - Shannon → Blarney 88 km · quickest by road, 1h 45m · €11–16 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/shannon-to-blarney) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Shannon&to=Blarney) - Charlestown → Blarney 226 km · quickest by road, 3h 29m · €27–37 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/charlestown-to-blarney) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Charlestown&to=Blarney) - Dublin → Blarney 221 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · €26–36 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/dublin-to-blarney) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Dublin&to=Blarney) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Blarney) 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 Blarney 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 Blarney. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get in There are no through-buses to Ireland from Great Britain or the continent: change in London for the ferry ports. - Get in Buses run from Rosslare ferry harbour via Wexford, Waterford, Dungarvan and Youghal to Cork, and continue to Kerry. - Get in Summer ferries from Roscoff and Santander sail to Cork, landing at Ringaskiddy 7 km south of the city. - Get around But they also have long day trips out to far-flung spots like Mizen Head and Ring of Kerry, impractical to reach without your own car. From [Wikivoyage: County Cork](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/County_Cork), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-08. 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 154 km 2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 282 km 3. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 464 km 4. [Isle of Jura](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-jura) GB 10 ways of moving, 19 sources 483 km 5. [Tarbert, Loch Fyne and Kintyre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tarbert-loch-fyne) GB 9 ways of moving, 15 sources 484 km If you know how people move in Blarney – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cblarney&title=Blarney&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fblarney), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Blarney - [Tower](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tower) human settlement 3 km - [Gurranabraher](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gurranabraher) suburb in Cork, Munster, Ireland 5.9 km - [Knocknaheeny](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/knocknaheeny) suburb in Cork, Ireland 5 km - [Ballincollig Royal Gunpowder Mills](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ballincollig-royal-gunpowder-mills) Ruined powder mills in Cork City, Ireland 4.8 km [The place page for Blarney](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/blarney) [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/blarney, 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