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![Little Island](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/ISS-56_Cork%2C_Ireland_with_the_River_Lee_and_surrounding_areas.jpg/1920px-ISS-56_Cork%2C_Ireland_with_the_River_Lee_and_surrounding_areas.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

# Little Island

Little Island, County Cork, is a civil parish and mainly industrial area to the east of Cork city in Ireland.

[Plan a trip to Little Island](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Little%20Island) [From Shannon](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Shannon&to=Little+Island)

## Every way there

- Shannon → Little Island 96 km · quickest by road, 2h 3m · €13–18 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/shannon-to-little-island) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Shannon&to=Little+Island)
- Dublin → Little Island 132 km · quickest by road, 3h · €92–154 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/dublin-to-little-island) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Dublin&to=Little+Island)
- Charlestown → Little Island 223 km · quickest by road, 4h 46m · €103–169 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/charlestown-to-little-island) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Charlestown&to=Little+Island)

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 Little Island, 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 Little Island](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/little-island)

What Little Island has

- Y Scheduled flights Cork (ORK), 12 km
- N Trains and coaches no timetable feed known for this country
- Y Ferries Carrigaloe Cross River Ferry Terminal, 5 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. Nearest place with more: Cork, 8 km.

51.900°, -8.350°

It is no longer an island since the northern channel separating it from the mainland has filled over. To the west and south is Lough Mahon, part of Cork Harbour; across a channel to the east is Fota Island. Little Island is within the Dáil constituency of Cork North-Central.

How locals move

## Getting around Little Island 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/Little_Island%2C_Cork), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: NASA (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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