Whitegate
Whitegate is a small village in East Cork on the eastern shore of Cork Harbour in County Cork, Ireland.
Whitegate is a small village in East Cork on the eastern shore of Cork Harbour in County Cork, Ireland. It lies within the townlands of Ballincarroonig and Corkbeg. Whitegate is within the Cork East Dáil constituency.
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Worth seeing in and around Whitegate
2 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.
- 01Roche's Point Lighthouse
Roche's Point Lighthouse is situated at the entrance to Cork Harbour, Ireland. A lighthouse was first established on 4 June 1817 to guide ships into Cork Harbour.
4 km · lighthouse in Ireland · 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.
3.6 km · lighthouse in Ireland · Wikipedia
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Getting to Whitegate
- Airports
- Cork (ORK), 18 km · Shannon (SNN), 108 km · Dublin (DUB), 222 km
- Stations
- Cork Harbour, 3.6 km · Port of Cork, 3.6 km
- Shannon → WhitegateTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Dublin → Whitegate214 km · quickest by road, 4h 2m · €28–39
- Charlestown → Whitegate48 km · quickest by road, 1h 11m · $4.5–6
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Whitegate
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 Whitegate. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inIn summer there are ferries from Roscoff and Santander.
- Go nextYou can shortcut to Cobh by the Passage West Ferry, then continue east to Youghal.
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