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About Rathbarry

Rathbarry, Ráth an Bharraigh in Irish, is a village in County Cork, 49 km south-west of Cork. It stands on the L4008. The map gives it 93 buildings and 1 named street, with 14 places named on them in 23 kinds, and 110 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 129th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.

Where
49 km south-west of Cork, 269 km from Dublin
Position
51.5735° N, 8.9603° W
Roads
L4008
Governed
Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
93 buildings, 1 street, 14 named places in 23 kinds
A view of Kilkeran Lake.
A view of Kilkeran Lake.·TJMac1993, CC BY-SA 4.0 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 110 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the L4008 running through Rathbarry.

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 Rathbarry?
In County Cork, in the province of Munster, 49 km south-west of Cork and 269 km from Dublin, on the L4008.
How big is Rathbarry?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 93 buildings, 1 named street and 14 named places, which by building count makes it the 129th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.
What is there to see in Rathbarry?
110 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Cottage Museum, Wart Well and Rathbarry Church Ruin.
How do you get to Rathbarry?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable. By road it is on the L4008.
Has County Cork grown or shrunk?
The census counted 854,118 people in the county in 1841 and 584,156 in 2022.
93
buildings on the model
1
named streets
14
named places
23
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 Q97798470). 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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