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About Crookhaven

Crookhaven, An Cruachán in Irish, is a village in County Cork, 99 km south-west of Cork. The map gives it 29 buildings and 0 named streets, with 12 places named on them in 20 kinds, and 43 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 148th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.

Where
99 km south-west of Cork, 315 km from Dublin
Position
51.4684° N, 9.7257° W, 11 m above sea level
Area
2.57 km²
Governed
Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
Founded
1843
On the model
29 buildings, 0 streets, 12 named places in 20 kinds
En activité, mais transformé en cottage...
En activité, mais transformé en cottage...·Julien Carnot, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Crookhaven Lighthouse
Crookhaven Lighthouse·Dr Brian Lynch, 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 43 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

1 line calls at 1 stop here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Crookhaven?
In County Cork, in the province of Munster, 99 km south-west of Cork and 315 km from Dublin.
How big is Crookhaven?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 29 buildings, 0 named streets and 12 named places, which by building count makes it the 148th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.
What is there to see in Crookhaven?
43 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Galley Cove Beach, Toberulla and Knocknagearagh Lough.
How do you get to Crookhaven?
1 bus and train line calls at 1 stop here in the published timetable, run by TFI Local Link Cork.
Has County Cork grown or shrunk?
The census counted 854,118 people in the county in 1841 and 584,156 in 2022.
29
buildings on the model
0
named streets
12
named places
20
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 Q2566692). 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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