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Cork
County Cork · Munster

About Cork

Cork, Corcaigh in Irish, is a city in County Cork, 85 km south of Limerick, with 222,333 people at the 2022 census. It stands on the M8, N20 and N22. The map gives it 93,415 buildings and 2,236 named streets, with 3,736 places named on them in 306 kinds, and 294 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.

Population
222,333 at the 2022 census
Where
85 km south of Limerick, 220 km from Dublin
Position
51.8985° N, 8.4726° W
Area
37.3 km²
Roads
M8, N20, N22, N25, N27, N28, N40 and N8
Governed
Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
Twinned with
San Francisco, United States, Kaliningrad, State of the Teutonic Order, Coventry, United Kingdom, Rennes, France, Swansea, United Kingdom, Shanghai, People's Republic of China and Cologne, Germany
On the model
93,415 buildings, 2,236 streets, 3,736 named places in 306 kinds
Cork's rooftops and church towers from the green slopes of Bell's Field.
Cork's rooftops and church towers from the green slopes of Bell's Field.·William Murphy, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The stone buildings and grounds of Cork City Gaol.
The stone buildings and grounds of Cork City Gaol.·Marathon, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Cork in order

55 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1446 to 2021. That is not a history of Cork, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

14462021Blarney CastleMTU Crawford College of Art & Design
The fifteenth century
The eighteenth century
The nineteenth century
The twentieth century
The twenty-first century

Population of Cork at each census

222,33378,70419112022

Census counts recorded on Wikidata for Cork (item Q36647).

County Cork since 1841

Every census of the county, which is the only way to see what happened to rural Ireland: the fall from the Famine runs for a century, and the recovery is recent.

854,118330,443584,15618412022

Source: Central Statistics Office, table F1001 'Population at Each Census', read through the PxStat API, read 2026-09-20.

What to see

Closest to the centre first, with how far each one is.

All 294 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M8, N20, N22, N25, N27, N28, N40 and N8 running through Cork. 134 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 60 lines call at 730 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

105 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Cork?
In County Cork, in the province of Munster, 85 km south of Limerick and 220 km from Dublin, on the M8, N20 and N22.
How big is Cork?
222,333 people at the 2022 census. On the map it is 93,415 buildings and 2,236 named streets.
What is there to see in Cork?
294 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Gaelic Athletic Association 100th Anniversary, John Francis Maguire M.P. and St Patrick Street.
How do you get to Cork?
60 bus and train lines call at 730 stops here in the published timetable, run by Aircoach, Bus Éireann and Citylink. There is a station in the settlement itself.
Has County Cork grown or shrunk?
The census counted 854,118 people in the county in 1841 and 584,156 in 2022.
93,415
buildings on the model
2236
named streets
3736
named places
306
kinds of place

Buildings, streets, places, roads and position are OpenStreetMap, counted by this site rather than quoted from anywhere. Population, elevation, area and twinning are structured claims on Wikidata (item Q36647). County population is the Central Statistics Office. Journeys are the National Transport Authority’s published timetable. Every sentence on this page is written from those numbers; none of it is copied from a description of the place.

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