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About Ballydesmond

Ballydesmond, Baile Deasumhan in Irish, is a village in County Cork, 61 km north-west of Cork. It stands on the R577. The map gives it 331 buildings and 2 named streets, with 13 places named on them in 18 kinds, and 24 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 83th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.

Where
61 km north-west of Cork, 239 km from Dublin
Position
52.1802° N, 9.2370° W
Roads
R577
Governed
Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
331 buildings, 2 streets, 13 named places in 18 kinds

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 24 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R577 running through Ballydesmond.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Ballydesmond?
In County Cork, in the province of Munster, 61 km north-west of Cork and 239 km from Dublin, on the R577.
How big is Ballydesmond?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 331 buildings, 2 named streets and 13 named places, which by building count makes it the 83th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.
What is there to see in Ballydesmond?
24 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Doctor's Hill, Forehane and Knockanefane.
How do you get to Ballydesmond?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable. By road it is on the R577.
Has County Cork grown or shrunk?
The census counted 854,118 people in the county in 1841 and 584,156 in 2022.
331
buildings on the model
2
named streets
13
named places
18
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 Q4076747). 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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