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# Ballincollig Royal Gunpowder Mills

The Ballincollig Royal Gunpowder Mills was one of three Royal gunpowder mills that manufactured gunpowder for the British Government.

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## Every way there

- Shannon → Ballincollig Royal Gunpowder Mills 92 km · quickest by road, 2h · €12–17 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/shannon-to-ballincollig-royal-gunpowder-mills) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Shannon&to=Ballincollig+Royal+Gunpowder+Mills)
- Charlestown → Ballincollig Royal Gunpowder Mills 231 km · quickest by road, 3h 44m · €28–39 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/charlestown-to-ballincollig-royal-gunpowder-mills) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Charlestown&to=Ballincollig+Royal+Gunpowder+Mills)
- Dublin → Ballincollig Royal Gunpowder Mills 225 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · €27–37 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/dublin-to-ballincollig-royal-gunpowder-mills) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Dublin&to=Ballincollig+Royal+Gunpowder+Mills)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Ballincollig Royal Gunpowder Mills, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Ballincollig Royal Gunpowder Mills has

- Y Scheduled flights Cork (ORK), 9 km
- N Trains and coaches no timetable feed known for this country
- Y Ferries Gleenbrook Cross River Ferry Terminal, 18 km; sailings estimated
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Cork, 8 km.

51.893°, -8.590°

Located in Ballincollig, Cork city, Ireland, largely in what is now the Ballincollig Regional Park, the powder mills were originally opened in 1794 as a private enterprise, before being taken over by the British Government during the Napoleonic Wars.

How locals move

## Getting around Ballincollig Royal Gunpowder Mills the local way

- Get in There are no through-buses to Ireland from Great Britain or the continent: change in London for the ferry ports.
- Get in Buses run from Rosslare ferry harbour via Wexford, Waterford, Dungarvan and Youghal to Cork, and continue to Kerry.
- Get in Summer ferries from Roscoff and Santander sail to Cork, landing at Ringaskiddy 7 km south of the city.
- Get around But they also have long day trips out to far-flung spots like Mizen Head and Ring of Kerry, impractical to reach without your own car.

From [Wikivoyage: County Cork](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/County_Cork), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2025-08.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballincollig_Royal_Gunpowder_Mills), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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