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Seaside village in County Cork, Ireland · Munster

Fountainstown

Fountainstown is a coastal village in County Cork, Ireland, situated approximately 23 km south of Cork city.

Fountainstown
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The place

Fountainstown is a coastal village in County Cork, Ireland, situated approximately 23 km south of Cork city. A seaside village, it is separated by small promontory headland from the nearby village and beach at Myrtleville.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Fountainstown

Airports
Cork (ORK), 14 km · Shannon (SNN), 111 km · Dublin (DUB), 230 km
  • Shannon → Fountainstown
    109 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · €14–20
  • Dublin → Fountainstown
    221 km · quickest by road, 3h 18m · €27–38
  • Charlestown → Fountainstown
    245 km · quickest by road, 4h 6m · €30–42
  • From anywhere
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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 Fountainstown

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 Fountainstown. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inIn summer there are ferries from Roscoff and Santander.
  • Go nextYou can shortcut to Cobh by the Passage West Ferry, then continue east to Youghal.

From Wikivoyage: Crosshaven, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 21 sources

    178 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    261 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 36 sources

    471 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    493 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    494 km

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Around it

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