Kinsale

Kinsale is a small harbour in , . It's 25 km south of Cork city, at the mouth of the River Bandon, and in 2022 had a population of 6000.
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  • Type: Town with 1,800 residents
  • Description: town in County Cork, Ireland
  • Also known as: “Cionn t-Sáile”, “Cionn tSaile”, “Kinselas”, “キンセイル”, and “金斯利”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Charles Fort and Desmond Castle.

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is a trace italienne fortification, a bastion fort with one section of the outer wall built in star fashion. It is located at the southern end of the village of , on Kinsale harbour, , .

Museum
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is a tower house located in the town of Kinsale in , .

Archaeological site
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James Fort is an early 17th-century pentagonal bastion fort located on Castlepark peninsula in Kinsale harbour, , . Situated downstream from Kinsale on the , the fort was built to defend the harbour and seaborne approaches of the town.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Belgooly and Summer Cove.

Village
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(Irish: Béal Guala is a village in , , located 4.6 kilometres to the north-east of Kinsale. In 2022 it had a population of 823. is situated 4½ km northeast of Kinsale.

Locality
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is part of Kinsale town on the Kinsale harbour, on the south coast of ; it faces westwards across the entrance of the harbour to the Castlepark peninsula.

Locality
is a small village in , Ireland. It is 5 km north-west of Kinsale, on the R605 road between Kinsale and . Dún Darú, anglicised as , means the fort of the oak-plain, with the site of the fort for which it is named located to the south of the village. is situated 5 km northwest of Kinsale.

Kinsale

Latitude
51.7057° or 51° 42′ 21″ north
Longitude
-8.523° or 8° 31′ 23″ west
Population
1,800
Elevation
45 metres (148 feet)
UN/LOCODE
IE KLN
Open location code
9C3HPF4G+7R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 52259860
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2963155
Wiki­data ID
Q840681
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Kinsale” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “حصار كينسيل”
  • Armenian: “Քինսեյլ”
  • Asturian: “Kinsale”
  • Basque: “Kinsale”
  • Breton: “Cionn tSáile”
  • Bulgarian: “Кинсейл”
  • Catalan: “Kinsale”
  • Cebuano: “Kinsale”
  • Chinese: “金塞尔”
  • Chinese: “金塞爾”
  • Cornish: “Cionn tSáile”
  • Czech: “Kinsale”
  • Danish: “Kinsale”
  • Dutch: “Kinsale”
  • Finnish: “Kinsale”
  • French: “Kinsale”
  • Galician: “Kinsale”
  • German: “Kinsale”
  • Hebrew: “קינסייל”
  • Hungarian: “Kinsale”
  • Indonesian: “Kinsale”
  • Irish: “Cionn tSáile”
  • Italian: “Kinsale”
  • Japanese: “キンセール”
  • Latin: “Kinsalia”
  • Lithuanian: “Kinseilis”
  • Macedonian: “Кинсејл”
  • Manx: “Kione Sailley”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kinsale”
  • Persian: “کینسیل”
  • Polish: “Kinsale”
  • Portuguese: “Kinsale”
  • Russian: “Кинсейл”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Cionn tSáile”
  • Serbian: “Кинсејл”
  • Silesian: “Kinsale”
  • Slovak: “Kinsale”
  • Spanish: “Kinsale”
  • Swedish: “Kinsale”
  • Tok Pisin: “Kinsale”
  • Ukrainian: “Кінсейл”
  • Urdu: “کنسیئل”
  • Welsh: “Cionn tSáile”

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