Where a car takes you from Cork
These are the day trips from Cork on our own pages where a car earns its keep. Trains reach some of them; a car reaches all of them, on your own clock.
- Kinsale Gourmet Trail Ireland's original food town and the birthplace of modern Irish restaurant culture, Kinsale sits 30 km south of Cork city on the Bandon estuary
- Ballymaloe Estate and Cookery School The birthplace of modern Irish cuisine, 35 km east of Cork city near Shanagarry
- Midleton Distillery Experience and Farmers Market A dual Cork day trip: the Midleton Distillery Experience (home of Jameson) and Midleton Farmers Market every Saturday 09:30-13:00
- Clonakilty Black Pudding and West Cork Food Town Clonakilty, 50 km west of Cork, is Ireland's only officially designated 'Food Town' and home to Clonakilty Black Pudding, the most celebrated blood pu
- Skibbereen and Schull West Cork Food Trail Skibbereen anchors West Cork's artisan food scene, with Skibbereen Farmers Market (The Fairfield, every Saturday 09:30-13:30) as the region's finest w
- Longueville House Apple Brandy and Cider Experience Longueville House produces Ireland's only apple brandy on a 400-acre wooded estate in the Blackwater Valley near Mallow, 35 km north of Cork city
Booking a car in Cork
We compare through one partner rather than listing every broker. Desks sit at the airport and in town, and the headline rate below is theirs, not ours.
- From
- USD 10.06 a day
- Desks on site
- Alamo, Budget, Dollar, Enterprise, Europcar, Hertz, Keddy, National
- Pick up at
- Cork Airport
Rates are the partner's headline price at our last check (2026-10-02) and move with dates, car class and insurance. We earn a commission if you book, at no cost to you.