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About Dripsey

Dripsey is a village in County Cork, 19 km west of Cork, with 304 people at the 2006 census. It stands on the R618. The map gives it 808 buildings and 3 named streets, with 10 places named on them in 23 kinds, and 81 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 29th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.

Population
304 at the 2006 census
Where
19 km west of Cork, 231 km from Dublin
Position
51.9149° N, 8.7420° W
Roads
R618
Governed
Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
808 buildings, 3 streets, 10 named places in 23 kinds
Dripsey Bridge, Dripsey Cross, Co. Cork, Ireland
Dripsey Bridge, Dripsey Cross, Co. Cork, Ireland·Robert Linsdell from St. Andrews, Canada, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Castles of Munster, Carrignamuck, Cork geograph.org.uk 1392949
Castles of Munster, Carrignamuck, Cork geograph.org.uk 1392949·Mike Searle, 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 81 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R618 running through Dripsey.

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

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

Questions people ask

Where is Dripsey?
In County Cork, in the province of Munster, 19 km west of Cork and 231 km from Dublin, on the R618.
How big is Dripsey?
304 people at the 2006 census. On the map it is 808 buildings and 3 named streets.
What is there to see in Dripsey?
81 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Inniscarra Reservoir, Carrignamuck Tower House and Coachford Greenway (End).
How do you get to Dripsey?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 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.
808
buildings on the model
3
named streets
10
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 Q4168222). 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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