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.
- Type: Town with 2,900 residents
- Description: town in County Cork, Ireland
- Also known as: “Sciobairín”, “Ан-Шкибаринь”, and “斯基柏林”
Places of Interest
Highlights: St. Patrick’s Cathedral and Skibbereen Town Hall.
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Church
Photo: JohnArmagh, Public domain.Skibbereen Town Hall
Town hall
Skibbereen Town Hall is a municipal building in The Square at Skibbereen, County Cork, Ireland.
Abbeystrewry Church
Church
Abbeystrewry Church is an Anglican church located in Skibbereen, County Cork, Republic of Ireland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Castletownshend.
Castletownshend
Castletownshend is a village in County Cork in southwest Ireland.Skibbereen
- Category: locality
- Location: County Cork, Munster, Southwest Ireland, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.5478° or 51° 32′ 52″ north
Longitude
-9.2662° or 9° 15′ 58″ west
Population
2,900
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
UN/LOCODE
IE SKB
Open location code
9C3GGPXM+4G
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Skibbereen” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سكيبيرين”
- Asturian: “Skibbereen”
- Basque: “Skibbereen”
- Breton: “An Sciobairín”
- Bulgarian: “Скиберен”
- Catalan: “Skibbereen”
- Cebuano: “Skibbereen”
- Chinese: “斯基伯林”
- Chinese: “斯基布因”
- Danish: “Skibbereen”
- Dutch: “Skibbereen”
- French: “Skibbereen”
- Galician: “Skibbereen”
- German: “Skibbereen”
- Irish: “An Sciobairin”
- Irish: “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: “Скибберин”
- Spanish: “Skibbereen”
- Swedish: “Skibbereen”
- Urdu: “اسکب بیرین”
- Welsh: “Skibbereen”
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