Moving to Newcastle Upon Tyne from Ireland
Posted on 19th February 2023 at 22:03
If Moving to Newcastle upon Tyne from Ireland, deciding on which ferry to use will depend on your final destination.
If moving to, or from the North of Ireland, or even Donegal, or moving to or from Sligo, Cavan, or Monaghan, then it will be worth considering the longish drive to the scottish port of Cairnryan and the next door port of Loch Ryan, which about 170 miles away from Tyneside.
Stranraer has now ceased to operate any ferriy crossings now at all.
Both P&O and Stenaline operate from these two adjacent ports. See https://www.stenaline.co.uk/routes/cairnryan-belfast/cairnryan-port
They connect with Larne and Belfast Ports respectively.
The road connection has improved a great deal in recent years, even in the Dumfries area, and, for the most of the journey there are now bypass roads around the towns and villages, so allowing about four hours driving time would be fine.
There are crossings every couple of hours during working days and also crossings during the nightime. and the fastest ones are only about 90 mins… it keeps getting faster.
Irish People have been moving from Ireland to Newcastle Upon Tyne for Centuries.
In fact one of the notable early emigrants was St Aidan of Lindisfarne.
He arrived to help spread teaching to the english nobility in the Seventh Century. Although there is no record of his removal arrangements, I suppose it is just possible he engaged an ancestor of McCrorys Removals to transport his precious manuscripts…. Someone had to do it!
And we would also have been around, but, the ferry may not have been so fast.
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