About Coolagowan
Coolagowan is a village in County Cork, 31 km north-east of Cork. The map gives it 62 buildings and 0 named streets, with 6 places named on them in 20 kinds, and 53 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 137th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.
- Where
- 31 km north-east of Cork, 189 km from Dublin
- Position
- 52.1172° N, 8.1874° W
- Governed
- Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
- On the model
- 62 buildings, 0 streets, 6 named places in 20 kinds


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.
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.
- Life Space Park1.3 kmPicnic sites
- Coole Well1.5 kmInformation boards
- Coole Upper Churches1.5 kmHistoric churches
- Natural heritage of Coolagowan1.6 kmInformation boards
- Pope's Well3.7 kmHoly wells
- St Bridget's Well3.8 kmHoly wells
- Aghern Castle3.9 kmCastles
- Lady Well3.9 kmHoly wells
- Castlelyons Friary4.4 kmAbbeys
- Castlelyons Church4.6 kmRuins
- Aghern Cemetery4.6 kmWoods
- Castlelyons Playground4.8 kmPlaygrounds
Getting around
The map gives no numbered road inside Coolagowan; the roads it does record are local.
No stop here appears in the national timetable.
The map records no school inside the settlement.
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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. 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.