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About Ballinascarty

Ballinascarty, Béal na Scairte in Irish, is a village in County Cork, 37 km south-west of Cork. The map gives it 367 buildings and 1 named street, with 6 places named on them in 23 kinds, and 99 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 77th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.

Where
37 km south-west of Cork, 256 km from Dublin
Position
51.6704° N, 8.8575° W
Governed
Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
367 buildings, 1 street, 6 named places in 23 kinds
Monument to Henry Ford
Monument to Henry Ford·Jonathan Thacker, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Kevin Kelleher Tyre Centre on the N71
Kevin Kelleher Tyre Centre on the N71·David Dixon, 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 99 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

2 lines call at 3 stops 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 Ballinascarty?
In County Cork, in the province of Munster, 37 km south-west of Cork and 256 km from Dublin.
How big is Ballinascarty?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 367 buildings, 1 named street and 6 named places, which by building count makes it the 77th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.
What is there to see in Ballinascarty?
99 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Bateman's Lough, Garden Wood and Battle of the Big Cross (1798) Memorial Monument.
How do you get to Ballinascarty?
2 bus and train lines call at 3 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann and West Cork Connect.
Has County Cork grown or shrunk?
The census counted 854,118 people in the county in 1841 and 584,156 in 2022.
367
buildings on the model
1
named streets
6
named places
23
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 Q4076776). 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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