Editing Clonakilty (section)

==Transport==
{{See also|History of rail transport in Ireland}}
The nearest airport to the town is [[Cork Airport]], and [[Bus Éireann]] provides coach links from Clonakilty to Cork and [[Skibbereen]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cdbcorkco.ie/asp/ccdb/bus_eireann.htm |publisher = Cork County Development Board | title=Bus Éireann |access-date=3 August 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928190311/http://cdbcorkco.ie/asp/ccdb/bus_eireann.htm |archive-date=28 September 2007}}</ref> During the summer months, there is a bus link to [[Killarney]] via the [[N71 road (Ireland)|N71]] road through Skibbereen, [[Bantry]], [[Glengarriff]] and [[Kenmare]].

Clonakilty was one of the destinations on the [[Cork, Bandon and South Coast Railway|West Cork Railway]], an Irish mainline railway from Cork city to various parts of [[West Cork]], which shut down in 1961. [[Clonakilty railway station]] opened on 28 August 1886, but finally closed on 1 April 1961.<ref>{{cite web | title=Clonakilty station | work=Railscot – Irish Railways | url=http://www.railscot.co.uk/Ireland/Irish_railways.pdf | access-date=17 September 2007 | archive-date=27 November 2007 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071127054525/http://www.railscot.co.uk/Ireland/Irish_railways.pdf | url-status=live }}</ref>

Clonakilty has a [[bypass road]] on the [[N71 road (Ireland)|N71]], to the south of the town, which routes traffic to Cork, [[Kinsale]], [[Bandon, County Cork|Bandon]], Skibbereen and [[Dunmanway]] via the [[R599 road (Ireland)|R599]], just west of the town, or vice versa to the [[R588 road (Ireland)|R588]] via [[Enniskean]] and the town centre.<ref name="irishstatutebook">{{cite web|url=http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2012/si/54/made/en/print|title=S.I. No. 54/2012 – Roads Act 1993 (Classification of Regional Roads) Order 2012.|website=irishstatutebook.ie| publisher = Government of Ireland |access-date=6 May 2023 | quote = R588 [..] between its junction with R586 at Enniskean in the county of Cork and its junction with R880 at Miles in the town of Clonakilty }}</ref>