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About Bandon

Bandon, Droichead na Bandan in Irish, is a town in County Cork, 25 km south-west of Cork, with 3,997 people at the 1881 census. It stands on the N71, R586 and R589. The map gives it 5,324 buildings and 92 named streets, with 255 places named on them in 115 kinds, and 97 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 5th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.

Population
3,997 at the 1881 census
Where
25 km south-west of Cork, 245 km from Dublin
Position
51.7462° N, 8.7369° W, 30 m above sea level
Area
9.72 km²
Roads
N71, R586, R589, R590, R602, R603, L2011 and L2021
Governed
Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
5,324 buildings, 92 streets, 255 named places in 115 kinds
Bandon Bridge
Bandon Bridge·E Turk, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Weir on the river
Weir on the river·Michael Dibb, 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 97 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N71, R586, R589, R590, R602, R603, L2011 and L2021 running through Bandon. 6 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

6 lines call at 9 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

12 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Bandon?
In County Cork, in the province of Munster, 25 km south-west of Cork and 245 km from Dublin, on the N71, R586 and R589.
How big is Bandon?
3,997 people at the 1881 census. On the map it is 5,324 buildings and 92 named streets.
What is there to see in Bandon?
97 things the map records in and around it, the closest being West Cork Heritage Centre, Sean Hales Statue and Téarnamh.
How do you get to Bandon?
6 bus and train lines call at 9 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, TFI Local Link Cork and West Cork Connect.
Has County Cork grown or shrunk?
The census counted 854,118 people in the county in 1841 and 584,156 in 2022.
5,324
buildings on the model
92
named streets
255
named places
115
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 Q678018). 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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