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About Coachford

Coachford, Áth an Chóiste in Irish, is a village in County Cork, 22 km west of Cork, with 439 people at the 2006 census. It stands on the R618 and R619. The map gives it 707 buildings and 3 named streets, with 20 places named on them in 29 kinds, and 74 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 37th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.

Population
439 at the 2006 census
Where
22 km west of Cork, 234 km from Dublin
Position
51.9093° N, 8.7881° W
Roads
R618 and R619
Governed
Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
707 buildings, 3 streets, 20 named places in 29 kinds
The River Lee (Inishcarra Reservoir)
The River Lee (Inishcarra Reservoir)·Jonathan Thacker, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Former church at Coachford
Former church at Coachford·Jonathan Thacker, 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 74 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R618 and R619 running through Coachford.

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

2 school or colleges on the map: Coachford Primary School and Coachford College.

Questions people ask

Where is Coachford?
In County Cork, in the province of Munster, 22 km west of Cork and 234 km from Dublin, on the R618 and R619.
How big is Coachford?
439 people at the 2006 census. On the map it is 707 buildings and 3 named streets.
What is there to see in Coachford?
74 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Magourney Parish Church, Coachford Greenway (Entrance) and Sunday's Well.
How do you get to Coachford?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann.
Has County Cork grown or shrunk?
The census counted 854,118 people in the county in 1841 and 584,156 in 2022.
707
buildings on the model
3
named streets
20
named places
29
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 Q4236912). 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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