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About Little Island

Little Island, An tOileán Beag in Irish, is a village in County Cork, 8 km east of Cork. It stands on the N25, R623 and L3004. The map gives it 1,148 buildings and 30 named streets, with 105 places named on them in 58 kinds, and 288 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 22th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.

Where
8 km east of Cork, 214 km from Dublin
Position
51.9035° N, 8.3541° W
Roads
N25, R623 and L3004
Governed
Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
1,148 buildings, 30 streets, 105 named places in 58 kinds
St Lappan's Church, Little Island
St Lappan's Church, Little Island·David Hawgood, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Houses and mobile homes, Little Island
Houses and mobile homes, Little Island·David Hawgood, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Little Island in order

8 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1854 to 2004. That is not a history of Little Island, 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.

18542004Cobh MuseumGlucksman Gallery
The nineteenth century
The twentieth century
The twenty-first century

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 288 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N25, R623 and L3004 running through Little Island. 7 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 7 lines call at 20 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Little Island National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Little Island?
In County Cork, in the province of Munster, 8 km east of Cork and 214 km from Dublin, on the N25, R623 and L3004.
How big is Little Island?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,148 buildings, 30 named streets and 105 named places, which by building count makes it the 22th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.
What is there to see in Little Island?
288 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Wallingstown Castle, Crompane Park and Glounthaune Playground.
How do you get to Little Island?
7 bus and train lines call at 20 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, Cork Cobh Connect and Iarnród Éireann / Irish Rail. There is a station in the settlement itself.
Has County Cork grown or shrunk?
The census counted 854,118 people in the county in 1841 and 584,156 in 2022.
1,148
buildings on the model
30
named streets
105
named places
58
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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