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About Shanbally

Shanbally, An Seanbhaile in Irish, is a village in County Cork, 11 km south-east of Cork. It stands on the R613, L2470 and L2492. The map gives it 545 buildings and 11 named streets, with 21 places named on them in 33 kinds, and 274 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 55th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.

Where
11 km south-east of Cork, 220 km from Dublin
Position
51.8319° N, 8.3543° W
Roads
R613, L2470, L2492 and L2496
Governed
Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
545 buildings, 11 streets, 21 named places in 33 kinds
Shanbally Church, near to Shanbally and Monkstown, Cork, Ireland. The Catholic church at Shanbally by the roundabout and close to the village school around the corner.
Shanbally Church, near to Shanbally and Monkstown, Cork, Ireland. The Catholic church at Shanbally by the roundabout and close to the village school around the corner.·Andrew Wood, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Shamrock bar Shanbally, near to Shanbally and Monkstown, Cork, Ireland. A roadside bar by the roundabout in Shanbally.
Shamrock bar Shanbally, near to Shanbally and Monkstown, Cork, Ireland. A roadside bar by the roundabout in Shanbally.·Andrew Wood, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Shanbally in order

9 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1854 to 2004. That is not a history of Shanbally, 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.

18542004Cobh MuseumGlucksman Gallery
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 274 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R613, L2470, L2492 and L2496 running through Shanbally.

By bus or train

4 lines call at 16 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Shanbally National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Shanbally?
In County Cork, in the province of Munster, 11 km south-east of Cork and 220 km from Dublin, on the R613, L2470 and L2492.
How big is Shanbally?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 545 buildings, 11 named streets and 21 named places, which by building count makes it the 55th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.
What is there to see in Shanbally?
274 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Barnahely Castle, Monkstown Castle and Cogan's Castle (Beauvoir).
How do you get to Shanbally?
4 bus and train lines call at 16 stops 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.
545
buildings on the model
11
named streets
21
named places
33
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 Q4520004). 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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