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About Leap

Leap, An Léim in Irish, is a village in County Cork, 58 km south-west of Cork. It stands on the R597. The map gives it 55 buildings and 5 named streets, with 27 places named on them in 37 kinds, and 238 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 139th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.

Where
58 km south-west of Cork, 277 km from Dublin
Position
51.5811° N, 9.1433° W
Roads
R597
Governed
Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
55 buildings, 5 streets, 27 named places in 37 kinds
A church at Leap
A church at Leap·Neville Goodman, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The head of Glandore harbour
The head of Glandore harbour·Neville Goodman, 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 238 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R597 running through Leap.

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: Leap National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Leap?
In County Cork, in the province of Munster, 58 km south-west of Cork and 277 km from Dublin, on the R597.
How big is Leap?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 55 buildings, 5 named streets and 27 named places, which by building count makes it the 139th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.
What is there to see in Leap?
238 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Leap waterfall, Lough Adoolig and Keamore Lough.
How do you get to Leap?
2 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann 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.
55
buildings on the model
5
named streets
27
named places
37
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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