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# Tower

A tower is a tall structure, taller than it is wide, often by a significant factor.

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## Every way there

- Search from wherever you are; the planner compares train, bus, ferry, flight and road.

The field note

What is in and around Tower, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Tower has

- Y Scheduled flights Cork (ORK), 12 km
- Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 2 timetable feeds for this country, 1 with real-time
- Y Ferries Gleenbrook Cross River Ferry Terminal, 20 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.

51.926°, -8.607°

Towers are distinguished from masts by their lack of guy-wires and are therefore, along with tall buildings, self-supporting structures.

How locals move

## Getting around Tower the local way

- Get in There are no through-buses to Ireland from Great Britain or the continent: change in London for the ferry ports.
- Get in Buses run from Rosslare ferry harbour via Wexford, Waterford, Dungarvan and Youghal to Cork, and continue to Kerry.
- Get in Summer ferries from Roscoff and Santander sail to Cork, landing at Ringaskiddy 7 km south of the city.
- Get around But they also have long day trips out to far-flung spots like Mizen Head and Ring of Kerry, impractical to reach without your own car.

From [Wikivoyage: County Cork](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/County_Cork), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2025-08.

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


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