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About Castletownshend

Castletownshend, Baile an Chaisleáin in Irish, is a village in County Cork, 64 km south-west of Cork. It stands on the R596. The map gives it 334 buildings and 22 named streets, with 41 places named on them in 23 kinds, and 234 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 82th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.

Where
64 km south-west of Cork, 283 km from Dublin
Position
51.5278° N, 9.1778° W
Roads
R596
Governed
Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
334 buildings, 22 streets, 41 named places in 23 kinds
View of Castletownshend Castle, from the quay, in the mist.
View of Castletownshend Castle, from the quay, in the mist.·Sionnachfionn, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Castletownshend Castle in the mist
Castletownshend Castle in the mist·Sionnachfionn, 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 234 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R596 running through Castletownshend. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 5 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

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

Questions people ask

Where is Castletownshend?
In County Cork, in the province of Munster, 64 km south-west of Cork and 283 km from Dublin, on the R596.
How big is Castletownshend?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 334 buildings, 22 named streets and 41 named places, which by building count makes it the 82th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.
What is there to see in Castletownshend?
234 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Battle of Castlehaven, The Irish RM Plaque and Cuaisín.
How do you get to Castletownshend?
1 bus and train line calls at 5 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
22
named streets
41
named places
23
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 Q984034). 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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