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Town · Ireland · Munster

# Shannon

What is there

## Worth seeing in and around Shannon

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. Bunratty Castle Bunratty Castle is a large 15th-century tower house in County Clare, Ireland. It is located in the centre of Bunratty village, by the N18 road between Limerick and Ennis, near Shannon Town and its airport. 3.6 km · castle in Co. Clare, Ireland · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunratty_Castle)

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 Shannon

**Airports:** Shannon (SNN), 4 km · Cork (ORK), 99 km · Ireland West Knock (NOC), 134 km\

- Cork → Shannon 94 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · €12–17 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cork-to-shannon) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cork&to=Shannon)
- Charlestown → Shannon 502 km · quickest by road, 8h 19m · $50–70 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/charlestown-to-shannon) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Charlestown&to=Shannon)
- Dublin → Shannon 188 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · €22–31 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/dublin-to-shannon) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Dublin&to=Shannon)
- From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Shannon)

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 Shannon

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around

- Go next Southbound is quickest via Limerick, but you could take the ferry across the estuary from Killimer to Tarbert.

From [Wikivoyage: Shannon](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Shannon), 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 74 km
2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 334 km
3. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 401 km
4. [Isle of Jura](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-jura) GB 10 ways of moving, 19 sources 413 km
5. [Tarbert, Loch Fyne and Kintyre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tarbert-loch-fyne) GB 9 ways of moving, 15 sources 417 km

If you know how people move in Shannon – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cshannon&title=Shannon&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fshannon), and the note gets an entry.

Around it

## Next door to Shannon

- [Bunratty](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bunratty) village in Munster, Ireland 3.2 km
- [Hurlers Cross](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hurlers-cross) village in Munster, Ireland 1.8 km

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