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About Ballingeary

Ballingeary, Béal Átha an Ghaorthaidh in Irish, is a village in County Cork, 52 km west of Cork. The map gives it 300 buildings and 1 named street, with 7 places named on them in 16 kinds, and 74 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 87th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.

Population
235, as the map records it
Where
52 km west of Cork, 261 km from Dublin
Position
51.8504° N, 9.2330° W, 95 m above sea level
Governed
Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
300 buildings, 1 street, 7 named places in 16 kinds
A recreational park in the village
A recreational park in the village·Bealathaabu, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
On of two of the villages pubs
On of two of the villages pubs·Bealathaabu, CC BY-SA 4.0 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 74 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

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

3 school or colleges on the map: Scoil Fhionnbarra, Scoil Mhuire - Béal Átha'n Ghaorthaidh and Coláiste na Mumhan.

Questions people ask

Where is Ballingeary?
In County Cork, in the province of Munster, 52 km west of Cork and 261 km from Dublin.
How big is Ballingeary?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 300 buildings, 1 named street and 7 named places, which by building count makes it the 87th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.
What is there to see in Ballingeary?
74 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Rathgaskig, Lough Allua and Glas Loughs.
How do you get to Ballingeary?
1 bus and train line calls at 1 stop 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
1
named streets
7
named places
16
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 Q1016302). 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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