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About Kilmurry

Kilmurry, Cill Muire in Irish, is a village in County Cork, 29 km west of Cork. It stands on the L2001 and L2004. The map gives it 491 buildings and 5 named streets, with 17 places named on them in 25 kinds, and 79 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 64th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.

Where
29 km west of Cork, 244 km from Dublin
Position
51.8423° N, 8.8814° W
Roads
L2001 and L2004
Governed
Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
491 buildings, 5 streets, 17 named places in 25 kinds
County Cork, Warren's Bridge.
County Cork, Warren's Bridge.·Sole Origami, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Buingea River at Ballymichael Bridge
Buingea River at Ballymichael Bridge·Jonathan Thacker, 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 79 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the L2001 and L2004 running through Kilmurry. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 4 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Kilmurry National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Kilmurry?
In County Cork, in the province of Munster, 29 km west of Cork and 244 km from Dublin, on the L2001 and L2004.
How big is Kilmurry?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 491 buildings, 5 named streets and 17 named places, which by building count makes it the 64th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.
What is there to see in Kilmurry?
79 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Independence Museum, Kilmurry Woods and Priest Memorial.
How do you get to Kilmurry?
1 bus and train line calls at 4 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.
491
buildings on the model
5
named streets
17
named places
25
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. 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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