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About Allihies

Allihies, Na hAilichí in Irish, is a village in County Cork, 112 km west of Cork. It stands on the L4904. The map gives it 164 buildings and 3 named streets, with 26 places named on them in 19 kinds, and 60 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 112th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.

Where
112 km west of Cork, 319 km from Dublin
Position
51.6414° N, 10.0444° W
Roads
L4904
Governed
Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
164 buildings, 3 streets, 26 named places in 19 kinds
Colourful houses at Allihies
Colourful houses at Allihies·Colin Park, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
View of Allihies
View of Allihies·Mat Tuck, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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 60 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the L4904 running through Allihies.

By bus or train

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

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Allihies?
In County Cork, in the province of Munster, 112 km west of Cork and 319 km from Dublin, on the L4904.
How big is Allihies?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 164 buildings, 3 named streets and 26 named places, which by building count makes it the 112th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.
What is there to see in Allihies?
60 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Allihies Copper Mine Museum, Bearhaven Copper Mines and Reservoir.
How do you get to Allihies?
1 bus and train line calls at 1 stop here in the published timetable, run by TFI Local Link Cork.
Has County Cork grown or shrunk?
The census counted 854,118 people in the county in 1841 and 584,156 in 2022.
164
buildings on the model
3
named streets
26
named places
19
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 Q2566701). 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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