Glounthaune
Glounthaune is a village in County Cork, Ireland, some 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) east of Cork city, on the north shore of Cork Harbour, the estuary of the River Lee.
Glounthaune is a village in County Cork, Ireland, some 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) east of Cork city, on the north shore of Cork Harbour, the estuary of the River Lee.
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Worth seeing in and around Glounthaune
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.
- 01Fota 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.
2.9 km · wildlife park on Fota Island, Ireland · Wikipedia
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Getting to Glounthaune
- Airports
- Cork (ORK), 13 km · Shannon (SNN), 97 km · Dublin (DUB), 219 km
- Stations
- Little Island railway station, 1.6 km · Glounthaune railway station, 600 m · Fota railway station, 2 km
- Shannon → Glounthaune95 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · €13–18
- Dublin → Glounthaune211 km · quickest by road, 3h 1m · €25–35
- Charlestown → Glounthaune230 km · quickest by road, 3h 47m · €28–40
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Glounthaune
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 Glounthaune. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe ferry runs daily 6:30AM–9:30PM and takes 5 min.
- Get inThe "East Ferry" sailed from medieval times, latterly cable-hauled, but ceased in 1913.
- Get inSee Cork#Get in for the ferries from Roscoff and Santander.
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Next door to Glounthaune
- Belvellyvillage in Munster, Ireland3.9 km
- Little Islandcivil parish in Munster, Ireland1.8 km