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About Skibbereen

Skibbereen, An Sciobairín in Irish, is a town in County Cork, 67 km south-west of Cork. It stands on the N71, R593 and R595. The map gives it 2,219 buildings and 59 named streets, with 129 places named on them in 81 kinds, and 230 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 14th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.

Population
2,903, as the map records it
Where
67 km south-west of Cork, 286 km from Dublin
Position
51.5478° N, 9.2662° W, 5 m above sea level
Area
8.59 km²
Roads
N71, R593, R595, R596 and R931
Governed
Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
Twinned with
Penmarch, France
On the model
2,219 buildings, 59 streets, 129 named places in 81 kinds
Looking down Main Street, Skibbereen, from the intersection with North Street, 1987
Looking down Main Street, Skibbereen, from the intersection with North Street, 1987·Ian Watson, CC0 via Wikimedia Commons
Main Street from The Square
Main Street from The Square·Gordon Hatton, 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 230 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N71, R593, R595, R596 and R931 running through Skibbereen. 8 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

6 lines call at 11 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

6 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Skibbereen?
In County Cork, in the province of Munster, 67 km south-west of Cork and 286 km from Dublin, on the N71, R593 and R595.
How big is Skibbereen?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 2,219 buildings, 59 named streets and 129 named places, which by building count makes it the 14th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.
What is there to see in Skibbereen?
230 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Tourist Office, Windmill and Wild Atlantic Way.
How do you get to Skibbereen?
6 bus and train lines call at 11 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, TFI Local Link Cork 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.
2,219
buildings on the model
59
named streets
129
named places
81
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 Q1930746). 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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