--- title: "Cork – what to see, and every way to get there | Mixroutes" description: "How to get to Cork from Shannon, Charlestown and Dublin: every way compared, with today's quickest and its fare. Cork is the second-largest city in the…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/places/cork" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/places/cork.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/University_College_Cork_-_Quad_during_Eclipse_2015_%2816684104050%29.jpg/3840px-University_College_Cork_-_Quad_during_Eclipse_2015_%2816684104050%29.jpg" --- ![Cork](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/University_College_Cork_-_Quad_during_Eclipse_2015_%2816684104050%29.jpg/3840px-University_College_Cork_-_Quad_during_Eclipse_2015_%2816684104050%29.jpg) # Cork Cork is the second-largest city in the Republic of Ireland, the county town of County Cork, the largest city in the province of Munster and the third-largest on the island of Ireland. [Plan a trip to Cork](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Cork) [From Shannon](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Shannon&to=Cork) ## Every way there - Shannon → Cork 94 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · €12–17 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/shannon-to-cork) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Shannon&to=Cork) - Charlestown → Cork 231 km · quickest by road, 3h 37m · €27–38 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/charlestown-to-cork) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Charlestown&to=Cork) - Dublin → Cork 219 km · quickest by road, 3h 7m · €26–36 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/dublin-to-cork) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Dublin&to=Cork) 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 Cork, 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 Cork](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cork) What Cork has - Y Scheduled flights Cork (ORK), 6 km - Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 2 timetable feeds for this country, 1 with real-time - Y Ferries Gleenbrook Cross River Ferry Terminal, 10 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. 51.897°, -8.470° At the 2022 census, it had a population of 224,004. Get in ## Getting to Cork 1. Cork Airport 2. Cork Ferry Terminal is at Ringaskiddy Cruise liners often visit: they may dock at Cobh or at Ringaskiddy, or in the case of very small liners dock in the City Centre on Horgan's Quay. 3. Kent Station is 4. Parnell Place off Merchants Quay The journey takes about 2 hr 15 min between Newlands Cross and Dunkettle, but the full journey time depends on the levels of congestion between these and destinations in either city.. See ## Worth seeing 1. Crawford Art Gallery The permanent collection includes paintings by Jack Yeats and Sean Keating, and a series of plaster casts of classical statues, which King George IV found tedious. 2. Elizabeth Fort The original fort built in 1601 was just timber and earth, and the citizens made short work of it. 3. St Fin Barre's Cathedral Saint Fin Barre (550-623 AD) was a preacher who spent his last 17 years hereabouts. 4. Nano Nagle Place Honora Nagle (1718-1784) pioneered Catholic education for girls in an era when that was repressed by the Penal Laws. 5. Church of St Anne Shandon (Shandon Bells), Church St T23 YN88,. 6. Cathedral of St Mary and St Anne This is the neo-Gothic Roman Catholic cathedral, opened in 1808. Do ## Things to do What's on? Listen to Cork 96 on 96.4 MHz, C103 on 102.6 MHz, or Red FM on 106.1 MHz. Read Cork Independent, The Echo, The Cork, The Corkman or Cork Beo. Cork City Tours operate a hop-on hop-off bus tour of the city, as well as excursions out to the Jameson Distillery, Mizen Head, and Ring of Kerry. They run May-Sep, and in 2023 the city tour is €18 adult, €16 conc, €7 child. 1. Páirc Ui Chaoimh This 45,000 capacity stadium hosts the biggest games. 2. Cork City FC "The Rebel Army" were relegated in 2025 - they're a yo-yo team and now play soccer in League of Ireland First Division, the second tier. Eat ## Where to eat Eating places and bars are everywhere, but especially on MacCurtain Street, Washington Street and Oliver Plunkett Street. How locals move ## Getting around Cork the local way - Get in In summer there are car ferries from Roscoff (15 hr) twice a week, operated by Brittany Ferries. - Get in In 2026, a new daily Hibernia Lines ferry launched to Boulogne-sur-mer. From [Wikivoyage: Cork](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Cork), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09. Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cork_(city%29) and [Wikivoyage](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Cork), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons. --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/places/cork, 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