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About Cobh

Cobh, An Cóbh in Irish, is a town in County Cork, 13 km south-east of Cork, with 12,347 people at the 2011 census. It stands on the R624, L2978 and L2989. The map gives it 5,509 buildings and 73 named streets, with 156 places named on them in 79 kinds, and 196 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 4th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.

Population
12,347 at the 2011 census
Where
13 km south-east of Cork, 216 km from Dublin
Position
51.8502° N, 8.2951° W, 47 m above sea level
Area
8.95 km²
Roads
R624, L2978, L2989, L2990, L2992 and L9618
Governed
Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
Twinned with
Ploërmel, France, Kolbuszowa, Poland, Cruzeiro, Brazil, Lake Charles, United States and Pontarddulais, United Kingdom
On the model
5,509 buildings, 73 streets, 156 named places in 79 kinds
Cobh railway station, County Cork (geograph 5939589)
Cobh railway station, County Cork (geograph 5939589)·Nigel Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Lusitania Monument seen from SE
Lusitania Monument seen from SE·Virtual-Pano, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Cobh in order

5 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1847 to 2017. That is not a history of Cobh, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

18472017St.Colman's CathedralKindred Spirits
The nineteenth century
The twentieth century
The twenty-first century

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 196 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R624, L2978, L2989, L2990, L2992 and L9618 running through Cobh. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 9 lines call at 62 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

5 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Cobh?
In County Cork, in the province of Munster, 13 km south-east of Cork and 216 km from Dublin, on the R624, L2978 and L2989.
How big is Cobh?
12,347 people at the 2011 census. On the map it is 5,509 buildings and 73 named streets.
What is there to see in Cobh?
196 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Lusitania Peace Memorial, John F. Kennedy Park and Titanic Experience.
How do you get to Cobh?
9 bus and train lines call at 62 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, Cork Cobh Connect and Iarnród Éireann / Irish Rail. There is a station in the settlement itself.
Has County Cork grown or shrunk?
The census counted 854,118 people in the county in 1841 and 584,156 in 2022.
5,509
buildings on the model
73
named streets
156
named places
79
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 Q733093). 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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