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Passage West

Passage West is a port town in County Cork, Ireland, situated on the west bank of Cork Harbour, some 10 km south-east of Cork city.

Passage West
Passage West · Wolfgang Moroder
The place

Passage West is a port town in County Cork, Ireland, situated on the west bank of Cork Harbour, some 10 km south-east of Cork city. Passage West was designated a conservation area in the 2003 Cork County Development Plan.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Passage West

6 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. 01
    St Colman's Cathedral

    The Cathedral Church of St. Colman, usually known as Cobh Cathedral, or previously Queenstown Cathedral, is a single-spire cathedral in Cobh, Ireland.

    3.6 km · cathedral · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

    2.6 km · wildlife park on Fota Island, Ireland · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Spit Bank Lighthouse

    The Spit Bank Lighthouse close to Cobh in County Cork, Ireland is a screw-pile lighthouse which marks a shallow bank in the navigable channels of lower Cork Harbour. The platform was built by the blind Irish engineer Alexander Mitchell, with the lighthouse itself designed by George Halpin.

    5.1 km · lighthouse in Ireland · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Naval College

    The Naval College is the principal naval military college in Ireland providing training to cadets, non-commissioned officers and recruits of the Irish Naval Service. The Naval College trains and educates personnel for service, providing a mixture of different courses ranging from officer training right through to naval engineering.

    4.8 km · principal naval military college in Ireland providing training to cadets, NCO's and recruits of the Irish Naval Service · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Old Town Hall, Cobh

    The Old Town Hall is a 19th-century building in Cobh, Ireland. Situated slightly east of the town center, in what is referred to as Lynch's Quay or East Beach, it faces Cork Harbour.

    3.8 km · 19th century building in Cobh, Ireland · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Ringmahon House

    Ringmahon House is a 19th-century house in the Mahon and Blackrock area of Cork in Ireland. Built c. 1820 by James Murphy, the house was owned by Ben Dunne in the mid-20th century.

    5.3 km · building in Cork, Ireland · Wikipedia

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.

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Getting to Passage West

Airports
Cork (ORK), 11 km · Shannon (SNN), 101 km · Dublin (DUB), 223 km
Stations
Cork Harbour, 5.3 km · Cobh railway station, 3.4 km · Port of Cork, 5.3 km · Little Island railway station, 4.3 km · Glounthaune railway station, 4.5 km
  • Shannon → Passage West
    99 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · €13–18
  • Dublin → Passage West
    215 km · quickest by road, 3h 8m · €26–36
  • Charlestown → Passage West
    235 km · quickest by road, 3h 52m · €29–40
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Passage West

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: 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. 01
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 21 sources

    168 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    265 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 36 sources

    463 km
  4. 04
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    484 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    484 km

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