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About Kanturk

Kanturk, Ceann Toirc in Irish, is a town in County Cork, 43 km north-west of Cork. It stands on the R576, R579 and R580. The map gives it 1,067 buildings and 14 named streets, with 35 places named on them in 33 kinds, and 34 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 24th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.

Where
43 km north-west of Cork, 221 km from Dublin
Position
52.1775° N, 8.9066° W
Area
3.12 km²
Roads
R576, R579, R580, L1025, L1026, L1028 and L1030
Governed
Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
1,067 buildings, 14 streets, 35 named places in 33 kinds
Kanturk Castle
Kanturk Castle·The Speckled Bird, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Kanturk Castle
Kanturk Castle·The Speckled Bird, CC BY-SA 4.0 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 34 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R576, R579, R580, L1025, L1026, L1028 and L1030 running through Kanturk. 4 car parks on the map.

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

3 school or colleges on the map: Colaiste Treasa, St Colman's Boys' National School, Kanturk and Scoil Naomh Pádraig.

Questions people ask

Where is Kanturk?
In County Cork, in the province of Munster, 43 km north-west of Cork and 221 km from Dublin, on the R576, R579 and R580.
How big is Kanturk?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,067 buildings, 14 named streets and 35 named places, which by building count makes it the 24th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.
What is there to see in Kanturk?
34 things the map records in and around it, the closest being O'Brien Street Park, Hanna Sheehy and Greenane Park.
How do you get to Kanturk?
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.
1,067
buildings on the model
14
named streets
35
named places
33
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 Q287965). 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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