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About Ballygarvan

Ballygarvan, Baile Garbháin in Irish, is a village in County Cork, 8 km south of Cork. It stands on the R600, L2457 and L6461. The map gives it 700 buildings and 8 named streets, with 15 places named on them in 34 kinds, and 260 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 38th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.

Where
8 km south of Cork, 226 km from Dublin
Position
51.8241° N, 8.4621° W
Roads
R600, L2457 and L6461
Governed
Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
700 buildings, 8 streets, 15 named places in 34 kinds
Entrance to Ballygarvan Retail Centre
Entrance to Ballygarvan Retail Centre·Hywel Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Church of Mary, Mother of God, Ballygarvan, County Cork
Church of Mary, Mother of God, Ballygarvan, County Cork·Neil Theasby, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Ballygarvan in order

8 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1854 to 2004. That is not a history of Ballygarvan, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

18542004Cobh MuseumGlucksman Gallery
The nineteenth century
The twentieth century
The twenty-first century

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 260 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R600, L2457 and L6461 running through Ballygarvan.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

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

Questions people ask

Where is Ballygarvan?
In County Cork, in the province of Munster, 8 km south of Cork and 226 km from Dublin, on the R600, L2457 and L6461.
How big is Ballygarvan?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 700 buildings, 8 named streets and 15 named places, which by building count makes it the 38th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.
What is there to see in Ballygarvan?
260 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Lady's Well, Lios (Ring Fort) and Ballea Castle.
How do you get to Ballygarvan?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops 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.
700
buildings on the model
8
named streets
15
named places
34
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 Q2084271). 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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