Ringaskiddy
Ringaskiddy is a village in County Cork, Ireland.

Ringaskiddy is a village in County Cork, Ireland. It is located on the western side of Cork Harbour, south of Cobh, and is 15 kilometres (9 mi) from Cork city, to which it is connected by the N28 road. The village is a port with passenger ferry, with six times weekly services to Boulogne-sur-Mer and two bi-weekly sailings to Roscoff in France. A ferry service to Swansea in Wales closed in 2012.
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Worth seeing in and around Ringaskiddy
4 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.
- 01St 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.
2.9 km · cathedral · Wikipedia - 02Spit 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.
3.5 km · lighthouse in Ireland · Wikipedia - 03Old 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.
2.9 km · 19th century building in Cobh, Ireland · Wikipedia - 04Naval 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.
1 km · principal naval military college in Ireland providing training to cadets, NCO's and recruits of the Irish Naval Service · Wikipedia
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Getting to Ringaskiddy
- Airports
- Cork (ORK), 12 km · Shannon (SNN), 105 km · Dublin (DUB), 226 km
- Stations
- Cobh railway station, 2.4 km · Carrigaloe railway station, 4 km · Rushbrooke halt, 2.2 km · Cove Fort, 3.8 km
- Shannon → Ringaskiddy104 km · quickest by road, 2h 17m · €14–19
- Dublin → Ringaskiddy217 km · quickest by road, 3h 16m · €26–37
- Charlestown → Ringaskiddy239 km · quickest by road, 3h 55m · €29–41
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Ringaskiddy
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 Ringaskiddy. 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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