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About Glencar

Glencar, Gleann Chárthaigh in Irish, is a village in County Kerry, 96 km west of Cork. The map gives it 103 buildings and 0 named streets, with 3 places named on them in 12 kinds, and 144 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 64th largest of the 68 settlements this site covers in County Kerry.

Where
96 km west of Cork, 285 km from Dublin
Position
51.9950° N, 9.8575° W
Governed
Kerry County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
103 buildings, 0 streets, 3 named places in 12 kinds
Cloon Lake, Glencar, Co. Kerry)
Cloon Lake, Glencar, Co. Kerry)·Bartholomew Colles Watkins, public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Ballaghbema Pass, Glencar, Co. Kerry (25581862336)
Ballaghbema Pass, Glencar, Co. Kerry (25581862336)·Robert French, no restrictions 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 144 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Glencar; the roads it does record are local. 1 car park on the map.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Glencar?
In County Kerry, in the province of Munster, 96 km west of Cork and 285 km from Dublin.
How big is Glencar?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 103 buildings, 0 named streets and 3 named places, which by building count makes it the 64th largest of the 68 settlements this site covers in County Kerry.
What is there to see in Glencar?
144 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Drombrane Lough, Corrawoolia and Lime Kiln.
How do you get to Glencar?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable.
Has County Kerry grown or shrunk?
The census counted 293,880 people in the county in 1841 and 156,458 in 2022.
103
buildings on the model
0
named streets
3
named places
12
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. 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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