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About Clonakilty

Clonakilty, Cloich na Coillte in Irish, is a town in County Cork, 42 km south-west of Cork, with 5,112 people at the 2022 census. It stands on the N71, R880 and L4011. The map gives it 3,564 buildings and 47 named streets, with 178 places named on them in 91 kinds, and 111 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 11th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.

Population
5,112 at the 2022 census
Where
42 km south-west of Cork, 262 km from Dublin
Position
51.6232° N, 8.8914° W
Area
10.33 km²
Roads
N71, R880, L4011, L4031 and L4045
Governed
Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
Twinned with
Waldaschaff, Germany and Châteaulin, France
On the model
3,564 buildings, 47 streets, 178 named places in 91 kinds
A view of The Feagle River.
A view of The Feagle River.·Marathon, 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 111 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N71, R880, L4011, L4031 and L4045 running through Clonakilty. 4 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

4 lines call at 13 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

6 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Clonakilty?
In County Cork, in the province of Munster, 42 km south-west of Cork and 262 km from Dublin, on the N71, R880 and L4011.
How big is Clonakilty?
5,112 people at the 2022 census. On the map it is 3,564 buildings and 47 named streets.
What is there to see in Clonakilty?
111 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Michael Collins Statue, Emmet Place and Cloch na gCoillte.
How do you get to Clonakilty?
4 bus and train lines call at 13 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, TFI Local Link Cork 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.
3,564
buildings on the model
47
named streets
178
named places
91
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 Q996703). 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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