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# Passage West

Passage West is a port town in County Cork, Ireland, situated on the west bank of Cork Harbour, some 10 km south-east of Cork city.

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## Every way there

- Shannon → Passage West 99 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · €13–18 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/shannon-to-passage-west) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Shannon&to=Passage+West)
- Dublin → Passage West 215 km · quickest by road, 3h 8m · €26–36 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/dublin-to-passage-west) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Dublin&to=Passage+West)
- Charlestown → Passage West 235 km · quickest by road, 3h 52m · €29–40 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/charlestown-to-passage-west) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Charlestown&to=Passage+West)

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 Passage West, 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 Passage West](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/passage-west)

What Passage West has

- Y Scheduled flights Cork (ORK), 11 km
- Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 2 timetable feeds for this country, 1 with real-time
- Y Ferries Carrigaloe Cross River Ferry Terminal, 1 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.

51.871°, -8.335°

Passage West was designated a conservation area in the 2003 Cork County Development Plan.

How locals move

## Getting around Passage West 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/Passage_West), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wolfgang Moroder (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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