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About Tower

Tower, Teamhair in Irish, is a village in County Cork, 10 km west of Cork. It stands on the R617, L2752 and L2764. The map gives it 1,574 buildings and 42 named streets, with 23 places named on them in 35 kinds, and 216 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 17th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.

Where
10 km west of Cork, 224 km from Dublin
Position
51.9251° N, 8.6079° W, 40 m above sea level
Area
1.97 km²
Roads
R617, L2752, L2764 and L2779
Governed
Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
1,574 buildings, 42 streets, 23 named places in 35 kinds
Aunties public house, Tower, Cork
Aunties public house, Tower, Cork·David Hawgood, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Tower Bridge, Blarney
Tower Bridge, Blarney·Caoimheen3, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Tower in order

6 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1446 to 2004. That is not a history of Tower, 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.

14462004Blarney CastleGlucksman Gallery
The fifteenth century
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 216 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R617, L2752, L2764 and L2779 running through Tower.

By bus or train

3 lines call at 18 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Tower?
In County Cork, in the province of Munster, 10 km west of Cork and 224 km from Dublin, on the R617, L2752 and L2764.
How big is Tower?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,574 buildings, 42 named streets and 23 named places, which by building count makes it the 17th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.
What is there to see in Tower?
216 things the map records in and around it, the closest being St. Ann's Well, Wood Entrance at Ann Road and Wood Walk Entrance.
How do you get to Tower?
3 bus and train lines call at 18 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.
1,574
buildings on the model
42
named streets
23
named places
35
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 Q1645711). 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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