Skibbereen
Skibbereen is a village in the southwest of County Cork, Ireland. An Sciobairín means "the little boat harbour" - it would have to be a small boat to get this far up the River Ilen.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include St. Patrick’s Cathedral and Skibbereen Town Hall.
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Church
Photo: JohnArmagh, Public domain.
St. Patrick's Cathedral or Skibbereen Cathedral in Skibbereen, Ireland, is parish of the Catholic Church in the Diocese of Cork and Ross. It was the seat of the former Diocese of Ross, but lost cathedral status when the see was merged with the Diocese of Cork in 1958.
Skibbereen Town Hall
Town hall
Skibbereen Town Hall is a municipal building in The Square at Skibbereen, County Cork, Ireland. It is currently used as a community events venue, hosting concerts and theatre performances.
Abbeystrewry Church
Church
Abbeystrewry Church is an Anglican church located in Skibbereen, County Cork, Republic of Ireland. It was completed in 1890. It is part of Abbeystrewry Union of Parishes in the Church of Ireland's Diocese of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Castletownshend.
Castletownshend
Castletownshend is a village in County Cork in southwest Ireland. It's a tiny place, just a single street leading down to the harbour, with a population of 167 in 2022.Skibbereen
- Type: Town with 2,900 residents
- Description: town in County Cork, Ireland
- Category: locality
- Location: County Cork, Munster, Southwest Ireland, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.55° or 51° 33′ northLongitude
-9.2667° or 9° 16′ westPopulation
2,900Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)United Nations Location Code
IE SKBOpen location code
9C3GHP2M+28OpenStreetMap ID
node 52262662OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Skibbereen” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Skibbereen”
- Basque: “Skibbereen”
- Breton: “An Sciobairín”
- Bulgarian: “Скиберен”
- Catalan: “Skibbereen”
- Cebuano: “Skibbereen”
- Chinese: “斯基伯林”
- Chinese: “斯基布因”
- Chinese: “斯基柏林”
- Danish: “Skibbereen”
- Dutch: “Skibbereen”
- French: “Skibbereen”
- Galician: “Skibbereen”
- German: “Skibbereen”
- Irish: “An Sciobairin”
- Irish: “An Sciobairín”
- Irish: “Sciobairín”
- Italian: “An Sciobairín”
- Italian: “Skibbereen”
- Japanese: “スキバリーン”
- Korean: “스키버린”
- Lithuanian: “Skipberinas”
- Luxembourgish: “Skibbereen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Skibbereen”
- Norwegian: “Skibbereen”
- Persian: “اسکیبرین”
- Polish: “Skibbereen”
- Romanian: “Skibbereen”
- Russian: “Ан-Шкибаринь”
- Russian: “Скибберин”
- Spanish: “Skibbereen”
- Swedish: “Skibbereen”
- Welsh: “Skibbereen”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Skibbereen”. Photo: Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0.