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About Farranfore

Farranfore, An Fearann Fuar in Irish, is a village in County Kerry, 80 km west of Cork. It stands on the N22 and N23. The map gives it 498 buildings and 6 named streets, with 29 places named on them in 36 kinds, and 94 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 39th largest of the 68 settlements this site covers in County Kerry.

Where
80 km west of Cork, 257 km from Dublin
Position
52.1705° N, 9.5498° W
Roads
N22 and N23
Governed
Kerry County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
498 buildings, 6 streets, 29 named places in 36 kinds
Main Street, Farranfore
Main Street, Farranfore·David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The footbridge, Farranfore railway station
The footbridge, Farranfore railway station·Jonathan Thacker, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Kerry 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.

293,880112,772156,45818412022

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 94 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N22 and N23 running through Farranfore. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 8 lines call at 4 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Knockaderry Farranfore National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Farranfore?
In County Kerry, in the province of Munster, 80 km west of Cork and 257 km from Dublin, on the N22 and N23.
How big is Farranfore?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 498 buildings, 6 named streets and 29 named places, which by building count makes it the 39th largest of the 68 settlements this site covers in County Kerry.
What is there to see in Farranfore?
94 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Proclomation of the Republic, Monearmore Fort and Lissaniska.
How do you get to Farranfore?
8 bus and train lines call at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, Dublin Coach and Flight Link Limited. There is a station in the settlement itself.
Has County Kerry grown or shrunk?
The census counted 293,880 people in the county in 1841 and 156,458 in 2022.
498
buildings on the model
6
named streets
29
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 Q2043304). 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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