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About Kealkill

Kealkill, An Chaolchoill in Irish, is a village in County Cork, 65 km west of Cork. It stands on the R584. The map gives it 71 buildings and 5 named streets, with 15 places named on them in 26 kinds, and 116 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 135th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.

Where
65 km west of Cork, 276 km from Dublin
Position
51.7495° N, 9.3829° W
Roads
R584
Governed
Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
71 buildings, 5 streets, 15 named places in 26 kinds
Ruins of Kilmacomoge church
Ruins of Kilmacomoge church·Jonathan Thacker, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Carriganass Castle
Carriganass Castle·David Dixon, 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 116 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R584 running through Kealkill.

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: Kealkill National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Kealkill?
In County Cork, in the province of Munster, 65 km west of Cork and 276 km from Dublin, on the R584.
How big is Kealkill?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 71 buildings, 5 named streets and 15 named places, which by building count makes it the 135th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.
What is there to see in Kealkill?
116 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Carriganass Castle, Kealkill stone circle and Breeny More Stone Circle.
How do you get to Kealkill?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Harrington's Ardgroom.
Has County Cork grown or shrunk?
The census counted 854,118 people in the county in 1841 and 584,156 in 2022.
71
buildings on the model
5
named streets
15
named places
26
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 Q4220510). 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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