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About Newmarket

Newmarket, Áth Trasna in Irish, is a town in County Cork, 50 km north-west of Cork. It stands on the R578, L1017 and L1018. The map gives it 343 buildings and 8 named streets, with 33 places named on them in 39 kinds, and 23 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 80th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.

Where
50 km north-west of Cork, 223 km from Dublin
Position
52.2149° N, 8.9989° W, 175 m above sea level
Roads
R578, L1017, L1018 and L1021
Governed
Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
343 buildings, 8 streets, 33 named places in 39 kinds
Image of D. D. Sheehan addressing a large rally during an election campaign for the All-for-Ireland Party in 1910, at Newmarket, County Cork Ireland.
Image of D. D. Sheehan addressing a large rally during an election campaign for the All-for-Ireland Party in 1910, at Newmarket, County Cork Ireland.·Unknown authorUnknown author, public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Old In Ireland, circular, similar to the early design style: no black line, only AA badge at top
Old In Ireland, circular, similar to the early design style: no black line, only AA badge at top·Milestone Society, 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 23 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R578, L1017, L1018 and L1021 running through Newmarket.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 1 stop here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Newmarket?
In County Cork, in the province of Munster, 50 km north-west of Cork and 223 km from Dublin, on the R578, L1017 and L1018.
How big is Newmarket?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 343 buildings, 8 named streets and 33 named places, which by building count makes it the 80th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.
What is there to see in Newmarket?
23 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Alice Taylor Monument, Stanner's Glen, Priory Wood and Site of Old Lismire School.
How do you get to Newmarket?
1 bus and train line calls at 1 stop 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.
343
buildings on the model
8
named streets
33
named places
39
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 Q4328368). 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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