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# Fountainstown

Fountainstown is a coastal village in County Cork, Ireland, situated approximately 23 km south of Cork city.

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## Every way there

- Shannon → Fountainstown 109 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · €14–20 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/shannon-to-fountainstown) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Shannon&to=Fountainstown)
- Dublin → Fountainstown 221 km · quickest by road, 3h 18m · €27–38 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/dublin-to-fountainstown) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Dublin&to=Fountainstown)
- Charlestown → Fountainstown 245 km · quickest by road, 4h 6m · €30–42 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/charlestown-to-fountainstown) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Charlestown&to=Fountainstown)

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 Fountainstown, 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 Fountainstown](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/fountainstown)

What Fountainstown has

- Y Scheduled flights Cork (ORK), 14 km
- F Trains and coaches Transitous carries 2 timetable feeds for this country, 1 with real-time; a stop for a place this small is unverified
- Y Ferries Cork (IRL), 6 km, Brittany Ferries; 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, 17 km.

51.776°, -8.311°

A seaside village, it is separated by small promontory headland from the nearby village and beach at Myrtleville.

How locals move

## Getting around Fountainstown the local way

- Get in In summer there are ferries from Roscoff and Santander.
- Go next You can shortcut to Cobh by the Passage West Ferry, then continue east to Youghal.

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

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


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