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About Ballyhooly

Ballyhooly, An Baile Átha hÚlla in Irish, is a village in County Cork, 28 km north of Cork. It stands on the N72, L1413 and L1506. The map gives it 284 buildings and 10 named streets, with 11 places named on them in 22 kinds, and 44 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 91th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.

Where
28 km north of Cork, 197 km from Dublin
Position
52.1441° N, 8.3979° W
Roads
N72, L1413 and L1506
Governed
Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
284 buildings, 10 streets, 11 named places in 22 kinds
Ballyhooly, County Cork, near to An Baile Atha Hulla, Bloomfield Cross Roads, Upper Convamore and Castleblagh, Cork, Ireland. The N72 through Ballyhooly
Ballyhooly, County Cork, near to An Baile Atha Hulla, Bloomfield Cross Roads, Upper Convamore and Castleblagh, Cork, Ireland. The N72 through Ballyhooly·Sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Castles of Munster, Ballyhooly, Cork geograph.org.uk 1393428
Castles of Munster, Ballyhooly, Cork geograph.org.uk 1393428·Mike Searle, 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 44 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N72, L1413 and L1506 running through Ballyhooly.

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: Scoil Mhuire Ballyhooly.

Questions people ask

Where is Ballyhooly?
In County Cork, in the province of Munster, 28 km north of Cork and 197 km from Dublin, on the N72, L1413 and L1506.
How big is Ballyhooly?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 284 buildings, 10 named streets and 11 named places, which by building count makes it the 91th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.
What is there to see in Ballyhooly?
44 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Ballyhooly Castle, Bridgetown Priory and Old Railway Bridge.
How do you get to Ballyhooly?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by 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.
284
buildings on the model
10
named streets
11
named places
22
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 Q4852180). 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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