Rathcoole, County Cork

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Rathcoole
Irish: Ráth Cúil
County Cork
Location
Grid reference: W332942
Location: 52°5’46"N, 8°58’30"W
Data
Population: 224  (2016)
Local Government
Dáil
constituency:
Cork North-West

Rathcoole, also spelled Rathcool is a village in the north west of County Cork, in the Barony of Duhallow.[1]

The village is to the south of the River Blackwater between Millstreet and Banteer. Rathcoole once had a train station on the Mallow–Tralee line but it closed in 1963.

Rathcoole Aerodrome is half a mile north of the village, and there is a community-funded rescue helicopter located there.[2]

Sport

  • Football: Rathcoole Rovers F.C.[3]
  • Gaelic sports: Dromtarriffe GAA

References