--- title: "Glounthaune – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Glounthaune, Ireland: 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…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/glounthaune" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/glounthaune.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Glounthaune_village_%28geograph_4170808%29.jpg/3840px-Glounthaune_village_%28geograph_4170808%29.jpg" --- Village by Cork Harbour, Ireland # 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](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Glounthaune_village_%28geograph_4170808%29.jpg/3840px-Glounthaune_village_%28geograph_4170808%29.jpg) Glounthaune · Wikimedia Commons The place 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. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glounthaune), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## 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. 1. 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. 2.9 km · wildlife park on Fota Island, Ireland · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fota_Wildlife_Park) 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 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 → Glounthaune 95 km · quickest by road, 2h 3m · €13–18 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/shannon-to-glounthaune) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Shannon&to=Glounthaune) - Dublin → Glounthaune 212 km · quickest by road, 3h · €25–35 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/dublin-to-glounthaune) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Dublin&to=Glounthaune) - Charlestown → Glounthaune 230 km · quickest by road, 3h 46m · €28–39 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/charlestown-to-glounthaune) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Charlestown&to=Glounthaune) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Glounthaune) 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 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. 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 164 km 2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 266 km 3. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 458 km 4. [Isle of Jura](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-jura) GB 10 ways of moving, 19 sources 480 km 5. [Tarbert, Loch Fyne and Kintyre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tarbert-loch-fyne) GB 9 ways of moving, 15 sources 480 km If you know how people move in Glounthaune – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cglounthaune&title=Glounthaune&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fglounthaune), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Glounthaune - [Belvelly](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/belvelly) village in Munster, Ireland 3.9 km - [Little Island](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/little-island) civil parish in Munster, Ireland 1.8 km [The place page for Glounthaune](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/glounthaune) [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/glounthaune, 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