Monkstown

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Monkstown

Air quality index

29Good

WeatherAvg high 56.8°F

Coordinates51.85°, -8.33°

Demographic figures from Central Statistics Office (Ireland). Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Monkstown is a village in County Cork, Ireland, in the old barony of Kerrycurrihy. It lies 14 kilometres southeast of Cork city on the estuary of the River Lee, facing Great Island and looking onto Monkstown Bay. For census purposes, Monkstown is combined with the nearby town of Passage West, and the combined area had a population of approximately 6,000 residents at the 2022 census. The village is in a townland and civil parish of the same name. The Catholic parish of Monkstown includes the nearby villages of Shanbally and Ringaskiddy.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Climate

10-year averages from ERA5 reanalysis (Open-Meteo).

Air quality

Current readings from Open-Meteo Air Quality API (Copernicus CAMS European reanalysis).

Wildlife & biodiversity

Citizen-science & research observations from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).

Earthquake history

Events from the USGS Earthquake Catalog (global) (FDSN Event Web Service).

Notable people from here

Frank Murphy

Irish rugby union player and referee

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Billy O'Neill

Irish hurler and Gaelic footballer

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Brian Murphy

Irish former sportsperson, born 1943

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Dan Desmond

Irish politician (1913-1964)

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Diarmuid Lynch

Irish politician

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Joe Moran

Irish hurler

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John O'Keeffe

Irish hurler in the 1910s and 1920s

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Kieran Kingston

Irish hurler and manager (born 1964)

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Liam de Róiste

Irish politician, diarist and Gaelic scholar

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Mary Fleetwood Berry

Irish suffragist (1865-1956)

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Morgan Madden

Irish hurler

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Myrtle Allen

Irish chef, teacher and writer

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Ned Grey

hurler

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Paddy O'Halloran

Irish hurler and Gaelic footballer

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Paddy O'Keeffe

Irish hurler

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Tom Barry

Irish hurler (1903–1984)

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Cork

• Julesburg
  4219.3 mi away
• Ovid
  4225.1 mi away
• Amherst
  4230.8 mi away
• Sedgwick
  4231.4 mi away
• Holyoke
  4240.4 mi away
• Crook
  4245.3 mi away
• Paoli
  4245.3 mi away
• Haxtun
  4249.7 mi away
• Peetz
  4251.6 mi away
• Fleming
  4255.4 mi away
• Laird
  4257.8 mi away
• Iliff
  4259.9 mi away

Browse all places in Cork →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Monkstown

Search results from Open Library.

Recently spotted species

Painted Lady

Vanessa cardui

Seen 2026-05-31

European black elderberry

Sambucus nigra

Seen 2026-05-30

Eurasian Blackbird

Turdus merula

Seen 2026-05-30

Hooded Crow

Corvus cornix

Seen 2026-05-29

purple foxglove

Digitalis purpurea

Seen 2026-05-28

Eurasian Bullfinch

Pyrrhula pyrrhula

Seen 2026-05-28

meadowsweet rust

Triphragmium ulmariae

Seen 2026-05-28

Mother-of-thousands

Saxifraga stolonifera

Seen 2026-05-28

Grey Heron

Ardea cinerea

Seen 2026-05-28

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).