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About Ballymakeera

Ballymakeera, Baile Mhic Íre in Irish, is a village in County Cork, 46 km west of Cork. It stands on the N22, R618 and L3405. The map gives it 238 buildings and 8 named streets, with 35 places named on them in 35 kinds, and 69 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 98th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.

Population
366, as the map records it
Where
46 km west of Cork, 250 km from Dublin
Position
51.9360° N, 9.1456° W, 118 m above sea level
Roads
N22, R618, L3405 and L3409
Governed
Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
238 buildings, 8 streets, 35 named places in 35 kinds
The older St Gobnait's (Gobnet's) church on the site of St Gobnait's Shrine in Ballyvourney, viewed from the East with the Church of Ireland building visible in the background.
The older St Gobnait's (Gobnet's) church on the site of St Gobnait's Shrine in Ballyvourney, viewed from the East with the Church of Ireland building visible in the background.·A.-K. D., CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
River Sullane at the townland of Flats in Ballyvourney
River Sullane at the townland of Flats in Ballyvourney·Laurel Lodged, 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 69 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N22, R618, L3405 and L3409 running through Ballymakeera.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 3 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

3 school or colleges on the map: Scoil Abán Naofa, Coláiste Ghobnatan and Coláiste Ghobnatan.

Questions people ask

Where is Ballymakeera?
In County Cork, in the province of Munster, 46 km west of Cork and 250 km from Dublin, on the N22, R618 and L3405.
How big is Ballymakeera?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 238 buildings, 8 named streets and 35 named places, which by building count makes it the 98th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.
What is there to see in Ballymakeera?
69 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Toberabban, St. Abban's Grave and Kealaboane Wood.
How do you get to Ballymakeera?
1 bus and train line calls at 3 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.
238
buildings on the model
8
named streets
35
named places
35
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 Q803789). 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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