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# Bunratty

Bunratty is a village in County Clare, Ireland, near Bunratty Castle.

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## Every way there

- Cork → Bunratty 92 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · €11–16 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cork-to-bunratty) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cork&to=Bunratty)
- Charlestown → Bunratty 141 km · quickest by road, 1h 59m · €16–23 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/charlestown-to-bunratty) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Charlestown&to=Bunratty)
- Dublin → Bunratty 186 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · €21–30 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/dublin-to-bunratty) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Dublin&to=Bunratty)

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 Bunratty, 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 Bunratty has

- Y Scheduled flights Shannon (SNN), 7 km
- N Trains and coaches no timetable feed known for this country
- N Ferries no crossing within 25 km
- 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: Limerick, 15 km.

52.708°, -8.827°

It is connected by the N18 road to Limerick and Galway. The Raite river defines the parish's eastern boundary and flows into the Shannon Estuary, which defines the southern boundary.

Get in

## Getting to Bunratty

1. Shannon Airport

See

## Worth seeing

1. Bunratty Castle and Folk Park The castle, built 1425, is the most complete medieval fortress in Ireland.

Do

## Things to do

Medieval Banquets are a sort of O'Cabaret. They're held year-round within the castle at 5:30PM and 8:45PM, a four-course meal with drinks and themed entertainment, with the "Earl of Thomond's Butler" acting as MC. The guests don't themselves put on medieval drag, though on corporate nights who knows. Adult €80, child €50, reservations essential.

Eat

## Where to eat

JP Clarke's gets mixed reviews. It's off Hill Rd, open daily from noon, last orders 9PM.

1. The Creamery Bar Old Bunratty Road V95 CC85, info@creamerybar.com.

How locals move

## Getting around Bunratty the local way

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

From [Wikivoyage: Bunratty](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Bunratty), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

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


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