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About Monkstown

Monkstown, Baile an Mhanaigh in Irish, is a village in County Cork, 11 km south-east of Cork. The map gives it 1,390 buildings and 23 named streets, with 13 places named on them in 28 kinds, and 275 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 20th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.

Where
11 km south-east of Cork, 218 km from Dublin
Position
51.8484° N, 8.3334° W, 30 m above sea level
Governed
Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
1,390 buildings, 23 streets, 13 named places in 28 kinds
Monkstown railway station (site), County Cork (geograph 5963672)
Monkstown railway station (site), County Cork (geograph 5963672)·Nigel Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Platform edgeThis appears to be the platform edge of the former Monkstown station on the Cork, Blackrock and Passage Railway extension to Crosshaven. The station closed in 1932.
Platform edgeThis appears to be the platform edge of the former Monkstown station on the Cork, Blackrock and Passage Railway extension to Crosshaven. The station closed in 1932.·Jonathan Thacker, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Monkstown in order

6 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1854 to 2004. That is not a history of Monkstown, 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 275 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 9 lines call at 26 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Rushbrooke Primary School.

Questions people ask

Where is Monkstown?
In County Cork, in the province of Munster, 11 km south-east of Cork and 218 km from Dublin.
How big is Monkstown?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,390 buildings, 23 named streets and 13 named places, which by building count makes it the 20th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.
What is there to see in Monkstown?
275 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Monkstown Castle, Cobh Heritage Centre and Scots Church.
How do you get to Monkstown?
9 bus and train lines call at 26 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.
1,390
buildings on the model
23
named streets
13
named places
28
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 Q4301791). 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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