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About Ballydehob

Ballydehob, Béal an dá Chab in Irish, is a village in County Cork, 78 km south-west of Cork. It stands on the R592 and L4412. The map gives it 169 buildings and 11 named streets, with 27 places named on them in 26 kinds, and 66 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 110th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.

Where
78 km south-west of Cork, 294 km from Dublin
Position
51.5622° N, 9.4607° W, 10 m above sea level
Area
4 km²
Roads
R592 and L4412
Governed
Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
169 buildings, 11 streets, 27 named places in 26 kinds
The Quay geograph.org.uk 2377451
The Quay geograph.org.uk 2377451·Andrew Wood, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Old Pier Warehouses
Old Pier Warehouses·Andrew Wood, 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 66 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R592 and L4412 running through Ballydehob.

By bus or train

3 lines call at 4 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Ballydehob Catholic National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Ballydehob?
In County Cork, in the province of Munster, 78 km south-west of Cork and 294 km from Dublin, on the R592 and L4412.
How big is Ballydehob?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 169 buildings, 11 named streets and 27 named places, which by building count makes it the 110th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.
What is there to see in Ballydehob?
66 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Ballydehob's 3-Arch Road Bridge, The 12-Arch Railway Viaduct and Ballydehob Harbour.
How do you get to Ballydehob?
3 bus and train lines call at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann and 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.
169
buildings on the model
11
named streets
27
named places
26
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 Q805407). 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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