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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.

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Fountainstown · Podstawko

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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountainstown), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

## 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 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/shannon-to-fountainstown) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Shannon&to=Fountainstown)
- Dublin → Fountainstown 221 km · quickest by road, 3h 18m · €27–38 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/dublin-to-fountainstown) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Dublin&to=Fountainstown)
- Charlestown → Fountainstown 245 km · quickest by road, 4h 6m · €30–42 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/charlestown-to-fountainstown) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Charlestown&to=Fountainstown)
- From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Fountainstown)

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 in In summer there are ferries from Roscoff and Santander.
- Go next You can shortcut to Cobh by the Passage West Ferry, then continue east to Youghal.

From [Wikivoyage: Crosshaven](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/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. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 178 km
2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 261 km
3. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 471 km
4. [Tarbert, Loch Fyne and Kintyre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tarbert-loch-fyne) GB 9 ways of moving, 15 sources 493 km
5. [Isle of Jura](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-jura) GB 10 ways of moving, 19 sources 494 km

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

Around it

## Next door to Fountainstown

- [Crosshaven](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/crosshaven) village in Munster, Ireland 2.8 km

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