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About Fermoy

Fermoy, Mainistir Fhear Maí in Irish, is a town in County Cork, 30 km north-east of Cork. It stands on the M8, N72 and R639. The map gives it 2,856 buildings and 113 named streets, with 238 places named on them in 118 kinds, and 57 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 12th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.

Population
6,720, as the map records it
Where
30 km north-east of Cork, 191 km from Dublin
Position
52.1382° N, 8.2752° W, 50 m above sea level
Area
7.83 km²
Roads
M8, N72, R639, R666, L1414, L1511 and L1515
Governed
Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
Twinned with
Q128369, France
On the model
2,856 buildings, 113 streets, 238 named places in 118 kinds
The River Blackwater at Fermoy, Republic of Ireland
The River Blackwater at Fermoy, Republic of Ireland·Original uploader was Sarah777 at en.wikipedia, public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Blackwater bridge in Fermoy as seen from south-west.
Blackwater bridge in Fermoy as seen from south-west.·Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Fermoy in order

4 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1309 to 1933. That is not a history of Fermoy, 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.

13091933Castlelyons FriaryCorrin Cross
The fourteenth century
The nineteenth century
The twentieth 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 57 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M8, N72, R639, R666, L1414, L1511 and L1515 running through Fermoy. 7 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

5 lines call at 8 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

8 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Fermoy?
In County Cork, in the province of Munster, 30 km north-east of Cork and 191 km from Dublin, on the M8, N72 and R639.
How big is Fermoy?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 2,856 buildings, 113 named streets and 238 named places, which by building count makes it the 12th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.
What is there to see in Fermoy?
57 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Kent Bridge, Tourist Information and Fermoy House.
How do you get to Fermoy?
5 bus and train lines call at 8 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, TFI Local Link Cork and TFI Local Link Waterford.
Has County Cork grown or shrunk?
The census counted 854,118 people in the county in 1841 and 584,156 in 2022.
2,856
buildings on the model
113
named streets
238
named places
118
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 Q1012470). 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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