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# Blarney

Blarney is a suburban town within the administrative area of Cork City in Ireland.

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## Every way there

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The field note

What is in and around Blarney, 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 Blarney has

- Y Scheduled flights Cork (ORK), 11 km
- Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 2 timetable feeds for this country, 1 with real-time
- 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.

51.933°, -8.567°

It is located approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) north-west of the city centre. It is the site of Blarney Castle, home of the legendary Blarney Stone. Blarney is part of the Dáil constituency of Cork North-Central. It is surrounded by the suburban villages of Tower, Cloghroe and Kerry Pike, all on the outskirts of Cork City.

Get in

## Getting to Blarney

Blarney is 9 km northwest of Cork along N20. Bus Éireann 215 runs from Cork (multiple stops) taking 20 min to Blarney village and continuing west to Cloghroe. It's every 30 min M-Sa and hourly on Sunday. Get off when you see the Woollen Mills to your left and the church to the right. Blarney lost its railway in 1934, a narrow gauge line to Cork.

See

## Worth seeing

1. Blarney Castle There was probably a wooden fort here by the 10th century, and a stone castle was built in 1210 but destroyed.

Do

## Things to do

Muskerry Golf Club has two 18-hole courses, the McKenzie and the Burren. It's 3 km west at Tower Model Village, which sounds more interesting than it is. There's no trace of a tower, and the "model" means the 20th-century concept of a planned suburb, there are no tiny plastic figures on platforms waiting for a Hornby Dublo train to pull in. Blarney Golf Club is a pitch & putt 2 km northeast by the caravan park.

Eat

## Where to eat

1. Muskerry Arms The Square, Blarney T23 XE95 (by Castle),.

How locals move

## Getting around Blarney 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/Blarney) and [Wikivoyage](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Blarney), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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