CarrigalineCo. Cork vs CrossbarryCo. CorkTown level

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

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iCarrigaline sits in P43, Crossbarry in T12. Each figure below is tagged with the geographic level it's actually measured at.
Carrigaline
Crossbarry

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

TOWNS
Carrigaline
Co. CORK · in P43 · pop 15,817 · 47 small areas
Crossbarry
Co. CORK · in T12 · pop 399 · 1 small areas
Prices & market● TOWN · exact
Median sale price
€385k
€485k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€317k – €463k
€320k – €630k
Sales (24m)
383
9
Price momentum (YoY)
+21.4%
New-build share
3.6%
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
3 prim · 1 sec
0 prim · 0 sec
Carrigaline · 4 schools (largest first)
Carrigaline Community School Secondary
1,060 pupils · 75% to 3rd-level · INTER DENOMINATIONAL
Holy Well National School (scoil Tobair Naofa) Primary
802 pupils · Catholic
St Mary's Church Of Ireland N.s Primary
209 pupils · Church Of Ireland
Owenabue Etns Primary
91 pupils · Multi Denominational
Crossbarry · 0 schools (largest first)
No schools inside the boundary.
Creches
13
0
GP practices
3
0
Pharmacies
6
0
Hospitals
0
0
Bus stops
30
2
Rail / Luas stops
0
0
Gyms & leisure
0
0
Parks & playgrounds
0
0
Sports pitches
0
0
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
17m · ~30 rush
22m · ~35 rush
Limerick
103m · ~120 rush
108m · ~125 rush
Waterford
112m · ~125 rush
122m · ~135 rush
Galway
173m · ~195 rush
178m · ~200 rush
Dublin
182m · ~215 rush
192m · ~225 rush
Affluence & profile● ELECTORAL DIVISION
Affluence (Pobal HP)
3.9
-4.6
Carrigaline · 4 EDs, poorest → richest
+2CarrigalineAbove average
+3LisclearyAbove average
+5CarrigalineAffluent
+7LisclearyAffluent
Crossbarry · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-9BallymurphyDisadvantaged
+0BallymurphyAbove average
Third-level educated
45.4%
28.5%
Professional class
44.9%
39.0%
Unemployment
6.6%
7.9%
Owner-occupier
80.1%
89.3%
Private rental
14.8%
6.6%
Social housing (LA)
4.1%
0.6%
Liveability & safety● AREA · P43 / T12
Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (CarrigalineP43, CrossbarryT12); safety & crime are the Cork City Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.
Quality of Life
72/100
66/100

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (P43 / T12) from official data — Garda crime, CSO income & census, OPW flood, EPA water, and transport/healthcare/broadband coverage. Refreshed quarterly. The dashed line is each town's overall score (that average) — dimensions to its right beat the average, to its left fall short. Two towns can share a score with a very different mix.

CarrigalineCrossbarryOverall (avg)
Safety72616661
Affordability6972
Infrastructure5886
Family8264
Education6455
Environment8962
Economic7864
020406080100020406080100
National rank
#4
#35
County rank
#2
#9
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.

Carrigaline Above average+3.9
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Carrigaline +2 (least affluent) → Liscleary +7 (most affluent). Even its least-affluent neighbourhood is above the national average.
Crossbarry Below average-4.6
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Ballymurphy -9 (least affluent) → Ballymurphy +0 (most affluent). It straddles 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 48 CSO Small Areas.
AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
CarrigalineCrossbarry
The verdict

Carrigaline is the stronger town on the data — it leads on 5 of the 7 dimensions to Crossbarry’s 0, with 2 level: affluence, education levels, schools & amenities, public transport and affordability. Crossbarry 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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