--- title: "Ringaskiddy – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Ringaskiddy, Ireland: Ringaskiddy is a village in County Cork, Ireland. Nearby: St Colman's Cathedral, Spit Bank Lighthouse, Old Town Hall, Cobh. Every…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ringaskiddy" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ringaskiddy.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Port_of_Cork%2C_view_from_the_east_into_the_city.jpg/1920px-Port_of_Cork%2C_view_from_the_east_into_the_city.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Port village in County Cork, Ireland · Munster # Ringaskiddy Ringaskiddy is a village in County Cork, Ireland. ![Ringaskiddy](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Port_of_Cork%2C_view_from_the_east_into_the_city.jpg/1920px-Port_of_Cork%2C_view_from_the_east_into_the_city.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Ringaskiddy · Podstawko The place 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. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringaskiddy), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## 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. 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. 2.9 km · cathedral · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Colman%27s_Cathedral,_Cobh) 2. 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. 3.5 km · lighthouse in Ireland · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spit_Bank_Lighthouse) 3. 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. 2.9 km · 19th century building in Cobh, Ireland · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Town_Hall,_Cobh) 4. 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. 1 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) 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 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 → Ringaskiddy 104 km · quickest by road, 2h 17m · €14–19 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/shannon-to-ringaskiddy) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Shannon&to=Ringaskiddy) - Dublin → Ringaskiddy 217 km · quickest by road, 3h 16m · €26–37 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/dublin-to-ringaskiddy) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Dublin&to=Ringaskiddy) - Charlestown → Ringaskiddy 239 km · quickest by road, 3h 55m · €29–41 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/charlestown-to-ringaskiddy) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Charlestown&to=Ringaskiddy) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Ringaskiddy) 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 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. 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 173 km 2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 263 km 3. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 466 km 4. [Isle of Jura](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-jura) GB 10 ways of moving, 19 sources 488 km 5. [Tarbert, Loch Fyne and Kintyre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tarbert-loch-fyne) GB 9 ways of moving, 15 sources 488 km If you know how people move in Ringaskiddy – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cringaskiddy&title=Ringaskiddy&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fringaskiddy), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Ringaskiddy - [Cóbh](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cobh) town in Munster, Ireland 2.8 km - [Crosshaven](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/crosshaven) village in Munster, Ireland 3.6 km - [Monkstown](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/monkstown) town in Munster, Ireland 2.4 km - [Shanbally](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/shanbally) village in Munster, Ireland 2.5 km - [Glenbrook](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/glenbrook) village in Munster, Ireland 3.6 km [The place page for Ringaskiddy](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/ringaskiddy) [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/ringaskiddy, 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