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About Whitegate

Whitegate, An Geata Bán in Irish, is a village in County Cork, 18 km south-east of Cork. It stands on the L3645. The map gives it 586 buildings and 10 named streets, with 13 places named on them in 26 kinds, and 138 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 53th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.

Where
18 km south-east of Cork, 216 km from Dublin
Position
51.8255° N, 8.2320° W
Roads
L3645
Governed
Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
586 buildings, 10 streets, 13 named places in 26 kinds
Harbour View at Whitegate
Harbour View at Whitegate·Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Houses and businesses at Whitegate
Houses and businesses at Whitegate·Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Whitegate in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1854 to 2017. That is not a history of Whitegate, 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.

18542017Cobh MuseumKindred Spirits
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 138 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the L3645 running through Whitegate.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 5 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Whitegate Mixed National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Whitegate?
In County Cork, in the province of Munster, 18 km south-east of Cork and 216 km from Dublin, on the L3645.
How big is Whitegate?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 586 buildings, 10 named streets and 13 named places, which by building count makes it the 53th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.
What is there to see in Whitegate?
138 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Whitegate War Memorial, Long Orchard and Paddock Wood.
How do you get to Whitegate?
1 bus and train line calls at 5 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.
586
buildings on the model
10
named streets
13
named places
26
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 Q4468449). 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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