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About Rosscarbery

Rosscarbery, Ros Ó gCairbre in Irish, is a village in County Cork, 53 km south-west of Cork. It stands on the R597, L4004 and L4038. The map gives it 712 buildings and 28 named streets, with 45 places named on them in 36 kinds, and 195 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 36th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.

Where
53 km south-west of Cork, 272 km from Dublin
Position
51.5775° N, 9.0329° W
Roads
R597, L4004, L4038, L4240 and L4250
Governed
Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
712 buildings, 28 streets, 45 named places in 36 kinds
View of the narthex, looking east.
View of the narthex, looking east.·Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Nave and chancel of the cathedral, looking east.
Nave and chancel of the cathedral, looking east.·Andreas F. Borchert, 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 195 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R597, L4004, L4038, L4240 and L4250 running through Rosscarbery. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

2 lines call at 6 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

3 school or colleges on the map: Saint Mary's National School, Mount Saint Michael and Ardagh Boys School.

Questions people ask

Where is Rosscarbery?
In County Cork, in the province of Munster, 53 km south-west of Cork and 272 km from Dublin, on the R597, L4004 and L4038.
How big is Rosscarbery?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 712 buildings, 28 named streets and 45 named places, which by building count makes it the 36th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.
What is there to see in Rosscarbery?
195 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Ross Abbey, Lagoon and Rosscarbery Lagoon.
How do you get to Rosscarbery?
2 bus and train lines call at 6 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann and West Cork Connect.
Has County Cork grown or shrunk?
The census counted 854,118 people in the county in 1841 and 584,156 in 2022.
712
buildings on the model
28
named streets
45
named places
36
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 Q2084128). 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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