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About Passage West

Passage West, An Pasáiste in Irish, is a town in County Cork, 10 km east of Cork, with 5,843 people at the 2016 census. It stands on the R610 and L2474. The map gives it 1,866 buildings and 61 named streets, with 63 places named on them in 43 kinds, and 298 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 15th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.

Population
5,843 at the 2016 census
Where
10 km east of Cork, 216 km from Dublin
Position
51.8711° N, 8.3354° W, 5 m above sea level
Area
9.49 km²
Roads
R610 and L2474
Governed
Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
1,866 buildings, 61 streets, 63 named places in 43 kinds
Armoured Car, Passage West, Cork (6652701421)
Armoured Car, Passage West, Cork (6652701421)·National Library of Ireland on The Commons, no restrictions via Wikimedia Commons
Passage West railway station (site), County Cork (geograph 5963676)
Passage West railway station (site), County Cork (geograph 5963676)·Nigel Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Passage West in order

9 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1854 to 2017. That is not a history of Passage West, 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.

18542017Cobh MuseumKindred Spirits
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 298 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R610 and L2474 running through Passage West. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 7 lines call at 72 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

2 school or colleges on the map: Saint Mary's School and Saint Francis Capuchin College.

Questions people ask

Where is Passage West?
In County Cork, in the province of Munster, 10 km east of Cork and 216 km from Dublin, on the R610 and L2474.
How big is Passage West?
5,843 people at the 2016 census. On the map it is 1,866 buildings and 61 named streets.
What is there to see in Passage West?
298 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Passage West Maritime Museum, Marmullane Park and The Tower (Barn).
How do you get to Passage West?
7 bus and train lines call at 72 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.
1,866
buildings on the model
61
named streets
63
named places
43
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 Q1635940). 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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