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About Meelin

Meelin is a village in County Cork, 52 km south-west of Limerick. The map gives it 25 buildings and 0 named streets, with 0 places named on them in 9 kinds, and 23 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 150th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.

Where
52 km south-west of Limerick, 222 km from Dublin
Position
52.2646° N, 9.0313° W, 254 m above sea level
Governed
Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
25 buildings, 0 streets, 0 named places in 9 kinds
Military carrying out official reprisal following an ambush in Meelin, Co. Cork (29988005920)
Military carrying out official reprisal following an ambush in Meelin, Co. Cork (29988005920)·National Library of Ireland on The Commons, no restrictions 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 23 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Meelin; the roads it does record are local.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Meelin?
In County Cork, in the province of Munster, 52 km south-west of Limerick and 222 km from Dublin.
How big is Meelin?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 25 buildings, 0 named streets and 0 named places, which by building count makes it the 150th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.
What is there to see in Meelin?
23 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Knockacummer, Banane and Alice Taylor Monument.
How do you get to Meelin?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable.
Has County Cork grown or shrunk?
The census counted 854,118 people in the county in 1841 and 584,156 in 2022.
25
buildings on the model
0
named streets
0
named places
9
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 Q15252698). 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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