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Best route from Cork to Enniskillen

  • 26-02-2015 10:08am
    #1
    Fujitsu10
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    Hi Boardies. Can anyone tell me what the best route from Cork to Enniskillen is? I have considered via Athlone and Mullingar, but I am tempted to go via Kells and utilizing the motorway network M8, M7, M3. All suggestions greatly appreciated.


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  • #2
    serfboard
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    Fujitsu10 wrote: »
    Hi Boardies. Can anyone tell me what the best route from Cork to Enniskillen is? I have considered via Athlone and Mullingar, but I am tempted to go via Kells and utilizing the motorway network M8, M7, M3. All suggestions greatly appreciated.
    Well if you go via the motorway network, you'll pay 5 tolls :eek: (M8/M7/M50/M3x2) but at least you'll have motorway/dual carriageway all the way to the Cavan border. I don't know what the road is like from Virginia to Enniskillen, but at least Cavan town and Belturbet have been bypassed.

    The other way to go I think is Limerick->Galway->Sligo. Some motorway, some good quality road, but some bad quality road too, and given the traffic levels, can be quite difficult to overtake. The road from Sligo to Enniskillen is very windy and can take an hour to do the 70K.

    Either way - a long journey awaits, I'm afraid.


  • #3
    ardmacha
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    You could also go Mullingar -> Kells bypass, but it is hardly worth it a Virginia is not bypassed.
    I wouldn't rate the Sligo route, the other routes have all of the M8, so providing a large part of journey.


  • #4
    _Kaiser_
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    Virginia to Enniskillen isn't too bad (I used to live in Virginia and brought the car up there to get serviced and also do be down in Cork a bit). Wide N-road to out beyond Cavan.. gets a bit twisty once you get near Enniskillen itself but aside from that it's a fairly easy run.
    The tolls will add up though but I'd probably do M8-M7-M50-M3-N3 myself.. figure about 1:20 to Portlaoise, another 45 mins to the M50, an hour to Virginia and another hour from there.. about 4 hours total.


  • #5
    Pete_Cavan
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    Either go to the M50 and pay the extra tolls or turn off at Portlaoise and cut across to Mullingar, from there follow N52 to the N3 or go up N4 to Edgeworthstown and then to Cavan. Either way it will take 5 hours.


  • #6
    petronius
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    Ok you can zig-zag a bit across the country to go from cork to enniskillen, but i think it is better then going to the centre of the motorway spider(dublin m50) and back up the m3
    it is relatively straightforward motorway to portlaoise then past tullamore to tyrellspass head for mullingar and go for longford but take the turn for granard and to cavan and then its straight to enniskillen
    I have done pretty much this route, after going wrongly through kells once!


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  • #7
    laoisfan
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    petronius wrote: »
    Ok you can zig-zag a bit across the country to go from cork to enniskillen, but i think it is better then going to the centre of the motorway spider(dublin m50) and back up the m3
    it is relatively straightforward motorway to portlaoise then past tullamore to tyrellspass head for mullingar and go for longford but take the turn for granard and to cavan and then its straight to enniskillen
    I have done pretty much this route, after going wrongly through kells once!

    What he said and I'm pretty sure the auld Googly Maps suggest this as well (or close enough to it).


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