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About Ring

Ring, An Rinn in Irish, is a village in County Cork, 41 km south-west of Cork. The map gives it 586 buildings and 2 named streets, with 12 places named on them in 24 kinds, and 107 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 52th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.

Where
41 km south-west of Cork, 261 km from Dublin
Position
51.6127° N, 8.8501° W
Governed
Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
586 buildings, 2 streets, 12 named places in 24 kinds
Stone and church
Stone and church·Neville Goodman, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Over the Island to Clonakilty Harbour
Over the Island to Clonakilty Harbour·Neville Goodman, 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 107 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

2 lines call at 3 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

2 school or colleges on the map: Darrara National School and Clonakilty Agricultural College.

Questions people ask

Where is Ring?
In County Cork, in the province of Munster, 41 km south-west of Cork and 261 km from Dublin.
How big is Ring?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 586 buildings, 2 named streets and 12 named places, which by building count makes it the 52th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.
What is there to see in Ring?
107 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Inchydoney Beach, Lios na gCon Ring Fort and Stoney Beach Ring.
How do you get to Ring?
2 bus and train lines call at 3 stops here in the published timetable, run by TFI Local Link Cork.
Has County Cork grown or shrunk?
The census counted 854,118 people in the county in 1841 and 584,156 in 2022.
586
buildings on the model
2
named streets
12
named places
24
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. 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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