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About Castletown

Castletown is a village in County Cork, 36 km south-west of Cork. The map gives it 464 buildings and 0 named streets, with 3 places named on them in 18 kinds, and 52 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 66th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.

Where
36 km south-west of Cork, 253 km from Dublin
Position
51.7695° N, 8.9533° W
Governed
Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
464 buildings, 0 streets, 3 named places in 18 kinds
Kinneigh Round Tower
Kinneigh Round Tower·Daniel J Hastings, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Kinneigh Round Tower
Kinneigh Round Tower·Daniel J Hastings, 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 52 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Castletown; the roads it does record are local.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Castletown?
In County Cork, in the province of Munster, 36 km south-west of Cork and 253 km from Dublin.
How big is Castletown?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 464 buildings, 0 named streets and 3 named places, which by building count makes it the 66th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.
What is there to see in Castletown?
52 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Cahervaglier Fort, Killaneer House and Fort Robert.
How do you get to Castletown?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable.
Has County Cork grown or shrunk?
The census counted 854,118 people in the county in 1841 and 584,156 in 2022.
464
buildings on the model
0
named streets
3
named places
18
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. 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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