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About Durrus

Durrus, Dúrras in Irish, is a village in County Cork, 79 km south-west of Cork. It stands on the R591, L4704 and L8707. The map gives it 182 buildings and 7 named streets, with 15 places named on them in 23 kinds, and 63 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 107th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.

Where
79 km south-west of Cork, 293 km from Dublin
Position
51.6216° N, 9.5234° W
Roads
R591, L4704 and L8707
Governed
Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
182 buildings, 7 streets, 15 named places in 23 kinds
Walks, views... and a dog
Walks, views... and a dog·subherwal from London, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Ahanegavanagh Stream Pictured flowing past the church before entering the Four Mile Water and Dunmanus bay.
Ahanegavanagh Stream Pictured flowing past the church before entering the Four Mile Water and Dunmanus bay.·Andrew Wood, 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 63 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R591, L4704 and L8707 running through Durrus.

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: St. James' National School and Carrigboy National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Durrus?
In County Cork, in the province of Munster, 79 km south-west of Cork and 293 km from Dublin, on the R591, L4704 and L8707.
How big is Durrus?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 182 buildings, 7 named streets and 15 named places, which by building count makes it the 107th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.
What is there to see in Durrus?
63 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Kilbreagh, Durrus Cheese and Gearhmeen Fort.
How do you get to Durrus?
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.
182
buildings on the model
7
named streets
15
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 Q2083862). 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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