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About Crossbarry

Crossbarry, Crois an Bharraigh in Irish, is a village in County Cork, 16 km south-west of Cork. It stands on the R589 and L2230. The map gives it 633 buildings and 8 named streets, with 20 places named on them in 31 kinds, and 93 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 42th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.

Where
16 km south-west of Cork, 236 km from Dublin
Position
51.8020° N, 8.6458° W
Roads
R589 and L2230
Governed
Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
633 buildings, 8 streets, 20 named places in 31 kinds
Crossbarry Bridge in co. Cork. Triple-arch road bridge, built c.1790, crossing Owenboy River. View from the south side.
Crossbarry Bridge in co. Cork. Triple-arch road bridge, built c.1790, crossing Owenboy River. View from the south side.·Podstawko, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
L6269 road near Cross Barry
L6269 road near Cross Barry·Steven Brown, 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 93 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R589 and L2230 running through Crossbarry.

By bus or train

2 lines call at 4 stops 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 Crossbarry?
In County Cork, in the province of Munster, 16 km south-west of Cork and 236 km from Dublin, on the R589 and L2230.
How big is Crossbarry?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 633 buildings, 8 named streets and 20 named places, which by building count makes it the 42th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.
What is there to see in Crossbarry?
93 things the map records in and around it, the closest being The Crossbarry Ambush Mermorial, Ballyhandle Castle and Bi-Centenary of 1798.
How do you get to Crossbarry?
2 bus and train lines call at 4 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.
633
buildings on the model
8
named streets
20
named places
31
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 Q4241734). 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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