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About Ballineen

Ballineen, Béal Átha Fhínín in Irish, is a village in County Cork, 38 km south-west of Cork. It stands on the R586, L4630 and L4631. The map gives it 614 buildings and 5 named streets, with 14 places named on them in 28 kinds, and 53 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 46th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.

Where
38 km south-west of Cork, 256 km from Dublin
Position
51.7356° N, 8.9509° W
Roads
R586, L4630 and L4631
Governed
Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
614 buildings, 5 streets, 14 named places in 28 kinds
Ballineen Bridge was widened in the late 18th century. You can clearly see where the bridge was widened by looking at the inner face of the arches.
Ballineen Bridge was widened in the late 18th century. You can clearly see where the bridge was widened by looking at the inner face of the arches.·E Turk, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
House by a field
House by a field·Neville Goodman, 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 53 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R586, L4630 and L4631 running through Ballineen.

By bus or train

2 lines call at 6 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

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

Questions people ask

Where is Ballineen?
In County Cork, in the province of Munster, 38 km south-west of Cork and 256 km from Dublin, on the R586, L4630 and L4631.
How big is Ballineen?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 614 buildings, 5 named streets and 14 named places, which by building count makes it the 46th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.
What is there to see in Ballineen?
53 things the map records in and around it, the closest being The Glen, Fort Robert and Palaceanne Wood.
How do you get to Ballineen?
2 bus and train lines call at 6 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.
614
buildings on the model
5
named streets
14
named places
28
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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