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About Drinagh

Drinagh, Draighneach in Irish, is a village in County Cork, 55 km south-west of Cork. It stands on the R637. The map gives it 45 buildings and 1 named street, with 7 places named on them in 23 kinds, and 135 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 143th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.

Where
55 km south-west of Cork, 272 km from Dublin
Position
51.6473° N, 9.1541° W
Area
17.679 km²
Roads
R637
Governed
Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
45 buildings, 1 street, 7 named places in 23 kinds
County Cork, Sacred Heart Church.
County Cork, Sacred Heart Church.·MrCorman, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Christ Church Drinagh
Christ Church Drinagh·Neville Goodman, 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 135 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R637 running through Drinagh.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Drinagh National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Drinagh?
In County Cork, in the province of Munster, 55 km south-west of Cork and 272 km from Dublin, on the R637.
How big is Drinagh?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 45 buildings, 1 named street and 7 named places, which by building count makes it the 143th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.
What is there to see in Drinagh?
135 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Toughmacdermody Lough, Lough Patrick and Curraghlicky Lake.
How do you get to Drinagh?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable. By road it is on the R637.
Has County Cork grown or shrunk?
The census counted 854,118 people in the county in 1841 and 584,156 in 2022.
45
buildings on the model
1
named streets
7
named places
23
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 Q59722992). 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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