BlarneyCo. Cork City vs TowerCo. Cork CityTown level

The same comparison as the area page, but measured for the town itself, not the whole Eircode routing key.

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iBoth towns sit in the same Eircode area T23 — on the routing-key area page they would read as one number. At town level they diverge. Each figure below is tagged with the geographic level it's actually measured at.
Blarney
Tower

Outlines are each town's CSO Small Areas — the exact footprint every figure is measured over.

TOWNS
Blarney
Co. CORK CITY · in T23 · pop · 10 small areas
Tower
Co. CORK CITY · in T23 · pop · 12 small areas
Prices & market● TOWN · exact
Median sale price
€432k
€380k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€351k – €509k
€344k – €414k
Sales (24m)
19
16
Price momentum (YoY)
-6.7%
+0.2%
New-build share
16.7%
0.0%
Schools, health & amenities● TOWN · counts
Count of each facility whose location falls inside the town boundary. Bigger towns naturally score higher — read alongside population.
Schools
1 prim · 0 sec
2 prim · 0 sec
Blarney · 1 schools (largest first)
Scoil Chroí Íosa Primary
287 pupils · Catholic
Tower · 2 schools (largest first)
Cloghroe Mixed N S Primary
519 pupils · Catholic
Strawberry Hill National School Primary
329 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Creches
6
3
GP practices
1
1
Pharmacies
1
1
Hospitals
0
0
Bus stops
4
16
Rail / Luas stops
0
0
Gyms & leisure
0
1
Parks & playgrounds
0
2
Sports pitches
3
6
Commute by car● TOWN · from centre
Drive time from the town centre to each city centre — typical off-peak, with an estimated weekday rush hour. OSRM road routing.
Cork
13m · ~20 rush
16m · ~25 rush
Limerick
79m · ~95 rush
85m · ~105 rush
Waterford
116m · ~130 rush
121m · ~135 rush
Galway
149m · ~175 rush
155m · ~180 rush
Dublin
186m · ~220 rush
190m · ~225 rush
Affluence & profile● ELECTORAL DIVISION
Affluence (Pobal HP)
2.7
3.2
Blarney · 1 EDs, poorest → richest
+3BlarneyAbove average
Tower · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
+3BlarneyAbove average
+4MatehyAbove average
Third-level educated
43.6%
45.5%
Professional class
43.5%
46.0%
Unemployment
5.6%
5.6%
Owner-occupier
75.1%
79.4%
Private rental
16.5%
14.6%
Social housing (LA)
6.8%
4.6%
Liveability & safety● AREA · T23 / T23
Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (BlarneyT23, TowerT23); safety & crime are the Cork City Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.
Quality of Life
60/100
60/100
National rank
#81
#81
County rank
#15
#15
Safety
61/100
61/100
Crime / 1,000
58.8
58.8

Affluence range

Pobal HP deprivation index — published per Electoral Division, so the spread shows the town's poorest to richest ED. A town that is a single ED shows one mark, no range.

Blarney Above average+2.7
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Single Electoral Division (Blarney) — above the national average.
Tower Above average+3.2
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Blarney +3 (least affluent) → Matehy +4 (most affluent). Even its least-affluent neighbourhood is above the national average.

How accurate is this, and at what level?

● TOWN
Prices, amenities & commute — exact, town-specific.

Prices come from individual PPR sales inside the town's Small-Area boundary; schools, GPs, transport, gyms and parks are counted the same way; commute is routed from the town centre. The figures the routing-key area page can't give you.

● ED
Affluence, profile & tenure — Electoral-Division level.

Pobal HP, third-level, class, unemployment, tenure are published per Electoral Division and averaged across the town's EDs — a range where the town spans several EDs (see the bar above).

● AREA
Liveability & safety — wider-area, not the town.

Quality of life and rank are per Eircode routing key; safety & crime are the Garda division (Cork City) — coarser than a town, so two towns in the same county read the same.

Population & growth are loaded for ~7 counties so far (not Leinster yet); rent & yield are too sparse per town. Tap Schools or Affluence to drill in. Built from 22 CSO Small Areas.
AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
BlarneyTower
The verdict

Tower is the stronger town on the data — it leads on 3 of the 7 dimensions to Blarney’s 0, with 4 level: education levels, public transport and affordability. Blarney doesn’t lead on any.

Higher is better on every spoke — affluence, education, amenity density, transport, safety, affordability and nearest-city access, scored head-to-head.

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