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About Castletownbere

Castletownbere, Baile Chaisleáin Bhéarra in Irish, is a town in County Cork, 103 km west of Cork. It stands on the R571 and R572. The map gives it 783 buildings and 26 named streets, with 88 places named on them in 51 kinds, and 91 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 30th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.

Where
103 km west of Cork, 311 km from Dublin
Position
51.6514° N, 9.9105° W, 16 m above sea level
Roads
R571 and R572
Governed
Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
783 buildings, 26 streets, 88 named places in 51 kinds
Market Square, Castletownbere, Co. Cork
Market Square, Castletownbere, Co. Cork·National Library of Ireland on The Commons, no restrictions via Wikimedia Commons
Chapel in Castletownbere, Co. Cork. NLI Ref.: OCO 348
Chapel in Castletownbere, Co. Cork. NLI Ref.: OCO 348·National Library of Ireland on The Commons, no restrictions 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 91 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R571 and R572 running through Castletownbere.

By bus or train

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

Schools and services

3 school or colleges on the map: Scoil Phobail Bheara, Scoil An Croi Ro Naofa and Scoil Phobail Bheara.

Questions people ask

Where is Castletownbere?
In County Cork, in the province of Munster, 103 km west of Cork and 311 km from Dublin, on the R571 and R572.
How big is Castletownbere?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 783 buildings, 26 named streets and 88 named places, which by building count makes it the 30th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.
What is there to see in Castletownbere?
91 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Berehaven Battalion Memorial, Bell and Timothy C. Harrington.
How do you get to Castletownbere?
5 bus and train lines call at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, Harrington's Ardgroom and 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.
783
buildings on the model
26
named streets
88
named places
51
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 Q2661507). 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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