Blackrock
Blackrock is a suburb, with a village core, in the southeast of Cork City, Ireland. Originally a small fishing village about five kilometres from Cork City, the growth of the city over time has meant that the village has become incorporated into the city.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb
- Description: village and suburb contained within Cork City, Ireland
- Also known as: “Blackrock, Cork”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Blackrock Castle and St Michael’s Church.
Blackrock Castle
Photo: MRaul, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Blackrock Castle is a castellated fortification located at Blackrock, about 2 km from Cork city centre on the banks of the River Lee in Ireland. Originally developed as a coastal defence fortification in the 16th century to protect upper Cork Harbour and port, the site now houses an observatory, visitor centre and restaurant.
Páirc Uí Rinn
Stadium
Páirc Uí Rinn, also known as Páirc Chríostóir Uí Rinn, is a Gaelic Athletic Association stadium located between Ballinlough and Ballintemple in Cork. It was previously known as Flower Lodge and was used as an association football stadium.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mahon and Tivoli.
Mahon
Suburb
Photo: Sebastian “sebrem” B…, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mahon is an area to the south-eastern side of Cork, Ireland. Mahon gets its name from Lough Mahon, a wide stretch of the upper section of Cork Harbour.
Tivoli
Locality
Photo: K.ristof, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tivoli is an eastern suburb of Cork in Ireland. Tivoli is in the Dáil constituency of Cork North-Central. A station on the former Cork and Youghal Railway served the area between the 1860s and 1930s.
Ballintemple
Suburb
Photo: Cdbrock, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ballintemple is a suburb of Cork city, Ireland. The village is situated on the east side of the city with its limits extending to the River Lee and the village of Blackrock further to the east.
Blackrock
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: County Cork, Munster, Southwest Ireland, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.89744° or 51° 53′ 51″ northLongitude
-8.41312° or 8° 24′ 47″ westElevation
13 metres (43 feet)Open location code
9C3HVHWP+XQOpenStreetMap ID
node 52245836OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Welsh—“Blackrock” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Blekrok”
- Basque: “Blackrock”
- Danish: “Blackrock”
- Dutch: “Blackrock”
- Hebrew: “בלקרוק”
- Irish: “An Dúcharraig”
- Irish: “An Dúcharrig”
- Japanese: “ブラックロック”
- Lithuanian: “Blakrokas”
- Portuguese: “Blackrock”
- Welsh: “Blackrock”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Blackrock”. Photo: K.ristof, CC BY-SA 3.0.