Togher is what you pass on your way south — Togher Road running through mixed residential, a step below the more polished suburbs that sit higher on the south side. The name "An Tóchar" means "the causeway," a reference to the ancient roads built on raised earth when the ground below was bog. That history is entirely underneath now. What you see is honest and functional: roads, houses, the daily machinery of a place where people live because the rent works, not because it's on the postcard.
CIT and MTU are accessible from here. Routes to the city centre funnel through — buses, cars, people with somewhere to be. Ballyphehane sits just beside. The whole south-side spine is Togher Road and what branches off it. No pretence. No quaintness. Just a suburb doing what suburbs do — holding people, holding steady, letting the city do the remarkable things.
South-side spine of Cork. 15–20 minutes into the city centre depending on traffic. Togher Road is the main route.
City buses run regularly. It's part of the metro network.
Cork railway station is north. Bus or car easier.