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About Castletownroche

Castletownroche, Baile Chaisleáin an Róistigh in Irish, is a village in County Cork, 30 km north of Cork. It stands on the N72, L1228 and L1229. The map gives it 334 buildings and 7 named streets, with 4 places named on them in 17 kinds, and 42 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 81th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.

Where
30 km north of Cork, 198 km from Dublin
Position
52.1727° N, 8.4635° W
Roads
N72, L1228 and L1229
Governed
Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
334 buildings, 7 streets, 4 named places in 17 kinds
Castletownroche bridge has been widened in the 19th century so that the down river side of it looks like this, the upriver side is much older, probably medieval.
Castletownroche bridge has been widened in the 19th century so that the down river side of it looks like this, the upriver side is much older, probably medieval.·E Turk, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Mill race Castletownroche
Mill race Castletownroche·Gordon Hatton, 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 42 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N72, L1228 and L1229 running through Castletownroche.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Castletownroche?
In County Cork, in the province of Munster, 30 km north of Cork and 198 km from Dublin, on the N72, L1228 and L1229.
How big is Castletownroche?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 334 buildings, 7 named streets and 4 named places, which by building count makes it the 81th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.
What is there to see in Castletownroche?
42 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Old Railway Bridge, Anne's Grove Gardens and Bridgetown Priory.
How do you get to Castletownroche?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by 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.
334
buildings on the model
7
named streets
4
named places
17
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 Q1049693). 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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