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About Doneraile

Doneraile, Dún ar Aill in Irish, is a village in County Cork, 36 km north of Cork, with 759 people at the 2006 census. It stands on the R581. The map gives it 260 buildings and 7 named streets, with 23 places named on them in 26 kinds, and 87 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 94th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.

Population
759 at the 2006 census
Where
36 km north of Cork, 201 km from Dublin
Position
52.2171° N, 8.5848° W, 82 m above sea level
Roads
R581
Governed
Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
260 buildings, 7 streets, 23 named places in 26 kinds
Castles of Munster: Creagh, Cork (1)
Castles of Munster: Creagh, Cork (1)·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
St Mary's church, Doneraile
St Mary's church, Doneraile·Dave Kelly, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Doneraile in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1229 to the 1770s. That is not a history of Doneraile, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

1229the 1770sBallybeg AbbeyBowen's Court
The thirteenth century
The eighteenth century

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 87 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R581 running through Doneraile. 4 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

2 school or colleges on the map: Nagle Rice Secondary School and Canon Sheehan Primary School.

Questions people ask

Where is Doneraile?
In County Cork, in the province of Munster, 36 km north of Cork and 201 km from Dublin, on the R581.
How big is Doneraile?
759 people at the 2006 census. On the map it is 260 buildings and 7 named streets.
What is there to see in Doneraile?
87 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Doneraile House, Doneraile Wildlife Park and Toberconeela.
How do you get to Doneraile?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops 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.
260
buildings on the model
7
named streets
23
named places
26
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 Q984039). 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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