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County Cork

Inniscarra Reservoir

Loch Inis Cara

Inniscarra Reservoir covers 4.5 km² with 45.1 km of shore in County Cork, 4.0 km west of Dripsey.

Getting to the water

A public road or path on the map comes within 0 m of the shore, along about 1.6 km of it, and there are 3 more stretches like it elsewhere on the shore. That is what the map contains. It is not a statement that the public may walk there, because OpenStreetMap does not record permission, and nobody has checked this lake against its owner.

4.5 km²
of water
45.1 km
of shore
4
stretches of shore a way reaches
1
viewpoints within 2.5 km
Area
4.5 km² measured from the mapped outline
Shore
45.1 km around the outline
In Irish
Loch Inis Cara
Public access
A public way reaches the shoreMeasured from the map, not from a statement of permission
Inniscarra Reservoir, County Cork
Inniscarra Reservoir, County Cork·Tim Sheerman-Chase, public domain via Wikimedia Commons

Where it is

The pin sits from the main access point on the shore, and every distance on this page is measured from that same point. The other pins are the nearest lakes in County Cork.

Parking, viewpoints and stops

Everything here is measured from the main access point on the shore. A viewpoint is a place that looks at the lake, which is not the same as a place on it.

Parking

An unnamed car park is 750 m away, and the walk from it to the shore is 720 m along mapped paths. The map records nothing about a charge.

Viewpoints
  • Iniscarra Dam View1.9 km
Nearest stops

No bus stop or station is mapped within two kilometres.

Getting to Inniscarra Reservoir

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How journey planning works
Destination, access and nearby stops

Inniscarra Reservoir is in Dripsey, County Cork. Routes here end at the stretch of shore a public way reaches, which this site measured on the ground. A car park is recorded 721 m from the water, about 9 minutes on foot.

Dripsey is the nearest settlement, 4.0 km west of the lake. Arriving in Dripsey is not arriving at the water, so the journeys below are worked out to the water and say so when they cannot reach it.
Stops near it

No scheduled stop was found within 2.5 km of Inniscarra Reservoir. On-demand services may not be included.

Getting to Dripsey covers the journeys into the town itself.

The nearest other lakes

Ordered by distance from the main access point on the shore, in a straight line, which is the same point and the same measure as the figures beside them.

Questions people ask

Can you walk to Inniscarra Reservoir?
A public road or path comes within 0 m of the shore, along about 1.6 km of it. That is what the map shows; it is not a statement of permission, which the map does not record.
How big is Inniscarra Reservoir?
4.5 km², with 45.1 km of shore, measured from the outline OpenStreetMap holds.
Where can you park for Inniscarra Reservoir?
A car park is 750 m away, and the walk from it to the shore is 720 m along mapped paths.
How do you get to Inniscarra Reservoir without a car?
No scheduled bus or train in the national timetable reaches Dripsey, the nearest settlement.

Where this comes from

The lake itself
The outline, the name and the identifiers are OpenStreetMap records. Correct it there Figures marked Wikidata come from Q22084020.
What this site measured
The area and the shore are worked out from that outline. The stretches of shore a way reaches, the walk in from a car park and every distance on this page are worked out here, on this site’s own graph of the OpenStreetMap ways, last built on 2026-09-20. These are this site’s calculations, not the map’s, and a mistake in them is a mistake here.