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About Aghada Upper

Aghada Upper, Áth Fhada Uachtarach in Irish, is a village in County Cork, 19 km east of Cork. The map gives it 300 buildings and 2 named streets, with 6 places named on them in 22 kinds, and 135 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 88th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.

Where
19 km east of Cork, 213 km from Dublin
Position
51.8373° N, 8.2081° W
Governed
Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
300 buildings, 2 streets, 6 named places in 22 kinds
County Cork, St Erasmus Church.
County Cork, St Erasmus Church.·MonikaLisa2, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Aghada Pier
Aghada Pier·Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Aghada Upper in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1854 to 2017. That is not a history of Aghada Upper, 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.

18542017Cobh MuseumKindred Spirits
The nineteenth century
The twentieth century
The twenty-first century

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 135 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Aghada Upper; the roads it does record are local.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 10 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Aghada National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Aghada Upper?
In County Cork, in the province of Munster, 19 km east of Cork and 213 km from Dublin.
How big is Aghada Upper?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 300 buildings, 2 named streets and 6 named places, which by building count makes it the 88th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.
What is there to see in Aghada Upper?
135 things the map records in and around it, the closest being US Naval Air Station, Thomas Kent Memorial Park and Rostellan Woods Picnic Area.
How do you get to Aghada Upper?
1 bus and train line calls at 10 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann.
Has County Cork grown or shrunk?
The census counted 854,118 people in the county in 1841 and 584,156 in 2022.
300
buildings on the model
2
named streets
6
named places
22
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. 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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