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About Crosshaven

Crosshaven, Bun an Tábhairne in Irish, is a village in County Cork, 16 km south-east of Cork, with 1,669 people at the 2006 census. It stands on the R612, L2496 and L2497. The map gives it 1,784 buildings and 28 named streets, with 50 places named on them in 42 kinds, and 131 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 16th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.

Population
1,669 at the 2006 census
Where
16 km south-east of Cork, 220 km from Dublin
Position
51.8024° N, 8.2953° W, 40 m above sea level
Area
1.6 km²
Roads
R612, L2496 and L2497
Governed
Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
Twinned with
Pleumeur-Bodou, France
On the model
1,784 buildings, 28 streets, 50 named places in 42 kinds
View of Earth taken during ISS Expedition 31.
View of Earth taken during ISS Expedition 31.·Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, public domain via Wikimedia Commons
View of Earth taken during ISS Expedition 62.
View of Earth taken during ISS Expedition 62.·Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center, public domain 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 131 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R612, L2496 and L2497 running through Crosshaven. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

4 lines call at 22 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Coláiste Muire.

Questions people ask

Where is Crosshaven?
In County Cork, in the province of Munster, 16 km south-east of Cork and 220 km from Dublin, on the R612, L2496 and L2497.
How big is Crosshaven?
1,669 people at the 2006 census. On the map it is 1,784 buildings and 28 named streets.
What is there to see in Crosshaven?
131 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Crosshaven Tourist Office, St. Mary's Well and St Bridget's Well.
How do you get to Crosshaven?
4 bus and train lines call at 22 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.
1,784
buildings on the model
28
named streets
50
named places
42
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 Q2668847). 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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