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About Coolea

Coolea, Cúil Aodha in Irish, is a village in County Cork, 51 km west of Cork. The map gives it 21 buildings and 1 named street, with 3 places named on them in 13 kinds, and 70 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 154th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.

Where
51 km west of Cork, 255 km from Dublin
Position
51.9282° N, 9.2182° W
Governed
Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
21 buildings, 1 street, 3 named places in 13 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.

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 70 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Coolea; the roads it does record are local.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Scoil Náisiúnta Chúil Aodha.

Questions people ask

Where is Coolea?
In County Cork, in the province of Munster, 51 km west of Cork and 255 km from Dublin.
How big is Coolea?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 21 buildings, 1 named street and 3 named places, which by building count makes it the 154th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.
What is there to see in Coolea?
70 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Áth Leacaigh, Carrignaspirroge and Saint Gobnet's Wood.
How do you get to Coolea?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable.
Has County Cork grown or shrunk?
The census counted 854,118 people in the county in 1841 and 584,156 in 2022.
21
buildings on the model
1
named streets
3
named places
13
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 Q1016273). 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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