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About Macroom

Macroom, Maigh Chromtha in Irish, is a town in County Cork, 33 km west of Cork. It stands on the N22, R582 and R584. The map gives it 3,802 buildings and 55 named streets, with 197 places named on them in 102 kinds, and 74 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 9th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.

Population
4,096, as the map records it
Where
33 km west of Cork, 243 km from Dublin
Position
51.9050° N, 8.9599° W, 1 m above sea level
Area
21.55 km²
Roads
N22, R582, R584, R618, L3414, L3418, L9301 and L9308
Governed
Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
Twinned with
Marcallo con Casone, Italy and Bubry, France
On the model
3,802 buildings, 55 streets, 197 named places in 102 kinds
Macroom Castle
Macroom Castle·Jo Turner, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Castle Garage, Castle Street
Castle Garage, Castle Street·Jo Turner, 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 74 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N22, R582, R584, R618, L3414, L3418, L9301 and L9308 running through Macroom. 4 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

3 lines call at 3 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

5 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Macroom?
In County Cork, in the province of Munster, 33 km west of Cork and 243 km from Dublin, on the N22, R582 and R584.
How big is Macroom?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 3,802 buildings, 55 named streets and 197 named places, which by building count makes it the 9th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.
What is there to see in Macroom?
74 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Republican Monument, Macroom Castle and Macroom Walks.
How do you get to Macroom?
3 bus and train lines call at 3 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.
3,802
buildings on the model
55
named streets
197
named places
102
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 Q1002636). 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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