Greater Cork

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Greater Cork (Irish: Mórcheantar Chorcaí) has a total population of 380,000 (2006). This area takes into account the total population of Metropolitan Cork and the Ring towns.[citation needed] Greater Cork is the largest urban area in the province of Munster with nearly a third of the province's population residing within Greater Cork.[citation needed]

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[edit] Economy

Main article: Economy of Cork

The GVA for the South-West Region (Co. Cork/Kerry) is more than 24,877 billion Euro (2005) or €40,835 per person, second to that of Greater Dublin and ahead of Greater Belfast. The Cork Metropolitan area is the core employment hub in the region, if not in Munster. It has clusters of international scale in pharmaceuticals, chemicals, software, electronic hardware, food and drink, merchant shipping and related sectors, oil and gas refining and a burgeoning financial services overspill from Dublin. It is also a centre for hi-tech research in electronics and biotechnology second only to Dublin on the island of Ireland.

[edit] Greater Cork area

This area consists of Metropolitan Cork (Cork city which has a population of 274,000 (2006), and outlying suburbs and satellite towns/villages):

Municipality Population Area¹
Cork 120,000 34 km2
Douglas 23,193
Glanmire 15,498
Lehenagh 9,435
Rathcooney 7,141
Inishkenny 5,000
Monkstown 5,000
Blarney 5,000
Passage West 5,000
Cork City Total 190,000 181 km2
Ballincollig 20,000
Carrigaline 13,000
Cobh 12,887
Metro Cork Total 274,000
Mallow 11,000
Youghal 7,000
Fermoy 7,000
Bandon 5,000
Kinsale 4,000
Macroom 3,000
Greater Cork Total 380,000

[edit] Transport

Metropolitan Cork is the main focus for public transport operated by a fleet of Volvo and Scania low floor large capacity single decker buses on city routes with six double decker Volvo buses on outer suburban routes (Ballincollig and Midleton). There are at present 18 city bus routes and 17 suburban bus routes run by Bus Éireann in the Greater Cork area:

[edit] City bus routes

[edit] Suburban bus routes

Bus Éireann also operates buses to the suburbs such as Ballincollig, Carrigaline, Glanmire.

[edit] Rail

By 2010, there will be 3 suburban train lines in the Cork Suburban Rail service, of which the Cork-Cobh line is currently in operation:

Planned Cork Suburban Railway

[edit] Ferry

The river Lee ferry links the suburbs of Rushbrooke and Passage West.

[edit] Ring towns

Outside of the Metropolitan area, there are another approximately 100,000 people living in ring towns, such as Mallow, Macroom, Bandon, Kinsale, Fermoy and Youghal.

  • Mallow 7,926
  • Rural area 21,811
  • Fermoy 2,273
  • Rural area 18,619
  • Bandon 1,713
  • Rural area 20,305

Total: 127,230

[edit] Population of Cork City, Metropolitan Cork and Greater Cork

Year Population
Cork City		 Population
Cork City and Environs/Suburbs		 Population
Metropolitan Cork		 Population
Greater Cork
2000 123,810 [1] — 251,510 [2] 345,100 [3]
2001 123,600 [4] — 253,000 [5] —
2002 123,062† 186,239† — —
2006 119,418† 190,384† 274,000 [6] 370,900 (L) - 377,000 (M) - 380,400 (H) [7]
2011 — — — 379,600 (L) - 397,800 (M) - 409,000 (H) [8]
2020-2021 135,820 [9] — 316,530 [10] 387,100 (L) - 423,150 (M) - 458,900 (H) [11]
Note: † indicates official census figures from the CSO. All other figures are estimates or projections from Cork City Council and/or Cork County Council.
Note: (L), (M) and (H) indicate low-migration, medium-migration and high-migration scenarios respectively.
Note: — indicates no available data.

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