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About Goleen

Goleen, An Góilín in Irish, is a village in County Cork, 96 km south-west of Cork. The map gives it 171 buildings and 2 named streets, with 9 places named on them in 22 kinds, and 61 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 109th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.

Where
96 km south-west of Cork, 312 km from Dublin
Position
51.4950° N, 9.7113° W
Governed
Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
171 buildings, 2 streets, 9 named places in 22 kinds
View of Earth taken during ISS Expedition 38.
View of Earth taken during ISS Expedition 38.·Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, public domain via Wikimedia Commons
View of Earth taken during ISS Expedition 61.
View of Earth taken during ISS Expedition 61.·Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center, public domain 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 61 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Goleen; the roads it does record are local.

By bus or train

2 lines call 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: Goleen National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Goleen?
In County Cork, in the province of Munster, 96 km south-west of Cork and 312 km from Dublin.
How big is Goleen?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 171 buildings, 2 named streets and 9 named places, which by building count makes it the 109th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.
What is there to see in Goleen?
61 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Knocknagearagh Lough, Dunkelly Lough and Knocknamaddree.
How do you get to Goleen?
2 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann and 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.
171
buildings on the model
2
named streets
9
named places
22
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 Q2084216). 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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