Coachford
Áth an Chóiste | |
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Village | |
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  Coachford Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 51°54′34″N 08°47′18″W / 51.90944°N 8.78833°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Munster |
| County | County Cork |
| Population | 408 |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (WET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-1 (IST (WEST)) |
Coachford (Irish: Áth an Chóiste[2]) is a village in County Cork, Ireland. It is located on the north side of the River Lee. The village is located in the civil parish of Magourney.[3] Coachford is part of the Dáil constituency of Cork North-West.
Coachford owes its name to once being a crossing point over a stream for horse-drawn coaches, and this stream continues to flow beneath the village to the present day. The Lee was flooded for a hydroelectric power plant and farmland including many houses was flooded by the newly formed lake. Coachford is located around a crossroads where the R618 and R619 regional roads intersect. Mallow is 20 miles (32 km) north of the village, Macroom is 9 miles (14 km) west, Cork City is 15 miles (24 km) east and Bandon is 20 miles (32 km) south.
- ^ "Sapmap Area - Settlements - Coachford". Census 2016. Central Statistics Office. April 2016. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
- ^ "Áth an Chóiste". Placenames Database of Ireland. Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government. 2008. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
- ^ Lewis, Samuel (1847). A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (second ed.). London, UK: S. Lewis and Co. pp. 297–298. Retrieved 26 April 2015.