--- title: "Cobh – what to see, and every way to get there | Mixroutes" description: "How to get to Cobh from Shannon, Dublin and Charlestown: every way compared, with today's quickest and its fare. Cobh, known from 1849 until 1920 as…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/places/cobh" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/places/cobh.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/William_Lionel_Wyllie_-_The_Oceanic.jpg/1920px-William_Lionel_Wyllie_-_The_Oceanic.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- ![Cobh](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/William_Lionel_Wyllie_-_The_Oceanic.jpg/1920px-William_Lionel_Wyllie_-_The_Oceanic.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) # Cobh Cobh, known from 1849 until 1920 as Queenstown, is a seaport town on the south coast of County Cork, Ireland. [Plan a trip to Cobh](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Cobh) [From Shannon](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Shannon&to=Cobh) ## Every way there - Shannon → Cobh 102 km · quickest by road, 2h 16m · €14–20 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/shannon-to-cobh) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Shannon&to=Cobh) - Dublin → Cobh 215 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · €26–37 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/dublin-to-cobh) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Dublin&to=Cobh) - Charlestown → Cobh 237 km · quickest by road, 3h 59m · €29–41 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/charlestown-to-cobh) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Charlestown&to=Cobh) 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 Cobh, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move. [Read the note on Cobh](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cobh) What Cobh has - Y Scheduled flights Cork (ORK), 13 km - Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 2 timetable feeds for this country, 1 with real-time - Y Ferries Spike Island Ferry, 0 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. 51.851°, -8.297° With a population of 14,148 inhabitants at the 2022 census, Cobh is on the south side of Great Island in Cork Harbour and home to Ireland's only dedicated cruise terminal. Tourism in the area draws on the maritime and emigration legacy of the town. Get in ## Getting to Cobh Irish Rail commuter trains run every 30–60 min from Cork Kent station to Little Island, Glounthaune, Fota (for Wildlife Park), Carrigaloe, Rushbrooke and Cobh, taking 25 min. Change in Cork for trains from Dublin Heuston, Limerick, Waterford and Mallow (for Cork Racecourse). Change at Glounthaune for Carrigtwohill (for Barryscourt Castle) and Midleton (for Jameson Whiskey Distillery). See ## Worth seeing And see Titanic for more on this liner Titanic Memorial is on Pearse Square. This grand "unsinkable" liner was launched in Belfast in 1911 and began her maiden voyage for the White Star Line on 10 April 1912. The timetable for RMS Titanic and her sister ships was to sail from Southampton to Cherbourg then overnight to Cobh, then onward to New York. 1. Cobh Heritage Centre 2. Cobh Museum In an old Presbyterian church opposite the Heritage Centre but separately run, this small museum has various exhibits of town life and its maritime history. 3. Titanic Experience Guided tour through the White Star departure hall, following the emigrants' footsteps. 4. St Colman's Cathedral Towering neo-Gothic RC cathedral; the steeple is 91.4 m tall. Do ## Things to do Titanic Trail Tours, Meet at Commodore Hotel,. Daily at 11AM and 2PM. One-hour walking tour explaining the Titanic story in Cobh. Adult €22.50, child €12.50. Cobh Rebel Walking Tours start from the Heritage Centre. Their focus is The Troubles and civil war. Sirius Arts Centre has a gallery but is mostly a performance space, open W-Sa 11AM-5PM. It's on the waterfront west side of JFK Park. 1. SailCork Learn dinghy or cruiser sailing, powerboating and other seafaring skills. 2. Cobh Golf Club is north off R624 Fail to notice what day it is for a couple of weeks, while otherwise being a meticulous travel-planner, if you're the hero of Around the World in 80 Days. Eat ## Where to eat Jacobs Ladder is within Water's Edge Hotel, see below. They do good seafood, open daily noon-8PM. How locals move ## Getting around Cobh the local way - Get in The ferry runs daily 6:30AM–9:30PM and takes 5 min. - Get in The "East Ferry" sailed from medieval times, latterly cable-hauled, but ceased in 1913. - Get in See Cork#Get in for the ferries from Roscoff and Santander. From [Wikivoyage: Cobh](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Cobh), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09. Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobh) and [Wikivoyage](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Cobh), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Lucien Waléry / After William Lionel Wyllie (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons. --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/places/cobh, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt