--- title: "Passage West – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Passage West, Ireland: 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.…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/passage-west" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/passage-west.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Hermitage_West_facade_Saint_Petersburg.jpg/1920px-Hermitage_West_facade_Saint_Petersburg.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Port town in Cork Harbour, Ireland · Munster # 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](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Hermitage_West_facade_Saint_Petersburg.jpg/1920px-Hermitage_West_facade_Saint_Petersburg.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passage_West), 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. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Colman%27s_Cathedral,_Cobh) 2. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fota_Wildlife_Park) 3. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spit_Bank_Lighthouse) 4. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringmahon_House) 5. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_College_(Ireland%29) 6. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Town_Hall,_Cobh) 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 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 · Carrigaloe railway station, 900 m · Little Island railway station, 4.3 km\ - Shannon → Passage West 99 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · €13–18 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/shannon-to-passage-west) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Shannon&to=Passage+West) - Dublin → Passage West 215 km · quickest by road, 3h 8m · €26–36 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/dublin-to-passage-west) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Dublin&to=Passage+West) - Charlestown → Passage West 235 km · quickest by road, 3h 52m · €29–40 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/charlestown-to-passage-west) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Charlestown&to=Passage+West) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Passage%20West) 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 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 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 168 km 2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 265 km 3. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 463 km 4. [Isle of Jura](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-jura) GB 10 ways of moving, 19 sources 484 km 5. [Tarbert, Loch Fyne and Kintyre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tarbert-loch-fyne) GB 9 ways of moving, 15 sources 484 km If you know how people move in Passage West – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cpassage-west&title=Passage+West&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fpassage-west), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Passage West - [Cóbh](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cobh) town in Munster, Ireland 3.5 km - [Carrigtwohill](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/carrigtwohill) town in Ireland 5.7 km - [Ringaskiddy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ringaskiddy) village in Munster, Ireland 4.4 km - [Monkstown](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/monkstown) town in Munster, Ireland 2.4 km - [Glounthaune](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/glounthaune) town in Munster, Ireland 4.5 km - [Shanbally](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/shanbally) village in Munster, Ireland 4.6 km [The place page for Passage West](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/passage-west) [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/passage-west, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. 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