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About Kinsale

Kinsale, Cionn tSáile in Irish, is a town in County Cork, 22 km south of Cork, with 4,893 people at the 2011 census. It stands on the R600, R605 and R606. The map gives it 4,321 buildings and 125 named streets, with 394 places named on them in 137 kinds, and 131 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 8th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.

Population
4,893 at the 2011 census
Where
22 km south of Cork, 238 km from Dublin
Position
51.7057° N, 8.5230° W, 10 m above sea level
Area
6.65 km²
Roads
R600, R605, R606, L3212 and L3231
Governed
Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
Twinned with
Newport, United States, Portofino, Italy, The Mumbles, United Kingdom, Antibes, France and Juan-les-Pins, France
On the model
4,321 buildings, 125 streets, 394 named places in 137 kinds
The Methodist Church, Kinsale
The Methodist Church, Kinsale·David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Rockview Bed & Breakfast (Kinsale, Ireland)
Rockview Bed & Breakfast (Kinsale, Ireland)·psyberartist, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Kinsale in order

6 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1190 to 2015. That is not a history of Kinsale, 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.

11902015Saint Multose ChurchBastion
The twelfth century
The fifteenth century
  • 1500Desmond CastleCastles · 230 m from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The seventeenth century
  • 1670Charles FortForts · 2.1 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The twentieth century
The twenty-first century
  • 2015BastionRestaurants · in the centre

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 131 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R600, R605, R606, L3212 and L3231 running through Kinsale. 17 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

7 lines call at 13 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

6 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Kinsale?
In County Cork, in the province of Munster, 22 km south of Cork and 238 km from Dublin, on the R600, R605 and R606.
How big is Kinsale?
4,893 people at the 2011 census. On the map it is 4,321 buildings and 125 named streets.
What is there to see in Kinsale?
131 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Dermot Ryan's Heritage Town Walks, Don & Barry’s Historic Stroll and Kinsale Tourist Office.
How do you get to Kinsale?
7 bus and train lines call at 13 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, TFI Local Link Cork and West Cork Connect.
Has County Cork grown or shrunk?
The census counted 854,118 people in the county in 1841 and 584,156 in 2022.
4,321
buildings on the model
125
named streets
394
named places
137
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 Q840681). 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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