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About Belgooly

Belgooly, Béal Guala in Irish, is a village in County Cork, 18 km south of Cork. It stands on the R600, R611 and L3213. The map gives it 628 buildings and 10 named streets, with 13 places named on them in 27 kinds, and 105 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 43th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.

Where
18 km south of Cork, 234 km from Dublin
Position
51.7374° N, 8.4840° W
Roads
R600, R611 and L3213
Governed
Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
628 buildings, 10 streets, 13 named places in 27 kinds
Belgooly Main Street, The Huntsman Bar and Restaurant
Belgooly Main Street, The Huntsman Bar and Restaurant·David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
R600 between Eastern Bridge and Belgooly
R600 between Eastern Bridge and Belgooly·David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Belgooly in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1500 to 1863. That is not a history of Belgooly, 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.

15001863Desmond CastleBelgooly G.A.A. Club
The fifteenth century
  • 1500Desmond CastleCastles · 4.4 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The seventeenth century
  • 1670Charles FortForts · 4.8 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The nineteenth 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 105 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R600, R611 and L3213 running through Belgooly.

By bus or train

3 lines call at 4 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

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

Questions people ask

Where is Belgooly?
In County Cork, in the province of Munster, 18 km south of Cork and 234 km from Dublin, on the R600, R611 and L3213.
How big is Belgooly?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 628 buildings, 10 named streets and 13 named places, which by building count makes it the 43th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.
What is there to see in Belgooly?
105 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Pallastown Wood, Ringnanean Wood and Ringnanean Wood.
How do you get to Belgooly?
3 bus and train lines call at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann 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.
628
buildings on the model
10
named streets
13
named places
27
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 Q4081744). 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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