Town comparison · Dunmanway vs Kinsale

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Dunmanway or Kinsale?

Both towns measured at town level, not the wider Eircode area, on the same 52 figures: prices, schools, amenities, social life, commute, affluence and safety.

Dunmanway, Co. Cork · P47 · 1,619 people | Kinsale, Co. Cork · P17 · 5,991 people

Kinsale is the stronger town on the data. It leads on 6 of the 7 dimensions to Dunmanway’s 1.

Dunmanway leads on
affordability
Kinsale leads on
affluenceeducation levelsschools & amenitiespublic transportsafetyaccess to its nearest city
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Dunmanway aheadlevel or not comparableKinsale ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
DunmanwayKinsale
iDunmanway sits in P47, Kinsale in P17. Each figure below is tagged with the geographic level it’s actually measured at. The town ahead on a row is the one in green. Scores and percentages are charted against a true 0 to 100 scale; every other row is charted against the larger of the two towns, so the bars compare but don’t imply a ceiling.

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

Dunmanway
Kinsale

Size

TOWN · census

Resident population at the 2022 CSO census, summed over the Small Areas that make up each town. Not scored: a bigger town isn’t a better one, it just explains why the counts below differ.

1,619
Population
5,991

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€240k
Median sale pricelower is better
€438k
Dunmanway leads
€145k – €323k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€383k – €615k
96
Sales (24m)
330
N/A
Price momentum (YoY)
+29.2%
7.3%
New-build share
31.2%

Schools, health & amenities

TOWN · counts

Facilities in and around each town — each counted once, for the town it’s closest to. Bigger towns naturally score higher — read alongside population.

4 prim · 1 sec
Schools
4 prim · 1 sec
Dunmanway · 5 schools (largest first)
Maria Immaculata Community College Secondary
639 pupils · 70% to 3rd-level · INTER DENOMINATIONAL
Dunmanway Convent Inf Primary
101 pupils · Catholic
Dunmanway Convent Girls Senior National School Primary
98 pupils · Catholic
Dunmanway Model N S Primary
95 pupils · Church Of Ireland
Dunmanway Boys Senior National School Primary
90 pupils · Catholic
Kinsale · 5 schools (largest first)
Kinsale Community School Secondary
1,498 pupils · 75% to 3rd-level · INTER DENOMINATIONAL
Scoil Naomh Eltin Primary
400 pupils · Catholic
S N Chobh Chionn Tsaile Primary
217 pupils · Catholic
Gaelscoil Chionn Tsáile Primary
145 pupils · Catholic
Kinsale N S Primary
54 pupils · Church Of Ireland
4
Creches
6
Kinsale leads
1
GP practices
2
Kinsale leads
2
Pharmacies
4
Kinsale leads
1
Hospitals
0
Dunmanway leads
8
Bus stops
13
Kinsale leads
0
Rail / Luas stops
0
5
Gyms & leisure
12
Kinsale leads
1
Parks & playgrounds
6
Kinsale leads
15
Sports pitches
30
Kinsale leads

Social life

TOWN · counts

Places to eat, drink and go out in and around each town — each counted once, for the town it’s closest to. The residents per venue row is the fairer read — raw counts just track town size, so a big town wins by being big.

2
Restaurants
28
Kinsale leads
1
Cafés
14
Kinsale leads
9
Pubs & bars
18
Kinsale leads
2
Takeaways
7
Kinsale leads
0
Nightclubs
0
0
Cinema & theatre
0
116
Residents per venuelower is better
89
Kinsale leads

Day-to-day

TOWN · counts

The errands you run without thinking about them. Same caveat — read the residents-per-service row alongside the counts.

3
Supermarkets
4
Kinsale leads
3
Convenience shops
2
Dunmanway leads
2
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
3
Kinsale leads
2
Banks
3
Kinsale leads
1
Post offices
1
5
Hairdressers
8
Kinsale leads
3
Dentists
3
1
Vets
2
Kinsale leads
2
Filling stations
1
Dunmanway leads
1
EV charging
1
4
Library & community centre
7
Kinsale leads
60
Residents per shop or servicelower is better
171
Dunmanway leads

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.

55m · ~75 rush
Corklower is better
30m · ~50 rush
Kinsale leads
133m · ~150 rush
Limericklower is better
115m · ~135 rush
Kinsale leads
155m · ~170 rush
Waterfordlower is better
130m · ~145 rush
Kinsale leads
203m · ~225 rush
Galwaylower is better
185m · ~210 rush
Kinsale leads
225m · ~260 rush
Dublinlower is better
200m · ~235 rush
Kinsale leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
-6.5
Affluence (Pobal HP)
3
Kinsale leads
Dunmanway · 4 EDs, poorest → richest
-9Dunmanway NorthDisadvantaged
-8Dunmanway SouthBelow average
-5Dunmanway SouthBelow average
-5Dunmanway NorthBelow average
Kinsale · 4 EDs, poorest → richest
-1Kinsale UrbanBelow average
+3Kinsale RuralAbove average
+4Kinsale UrbanAbove average
+7Kinsale RuralAffluent
26.3%
Third-level educated
48.8%
Kinsale leads
31.5%
Professional class
45.8%
Kinsale leads
10.1%
Unemploymentlower is better
7.9%
Kinsale leads
70.6%
Owner-occupier
64.7%
Dunmanway leads
14.8%
Private rental
26.8%
10.8%
Social housing (LA)
6.8%

Liveability & safety

AREA · P47 / P17

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (DunmanwayP47, KinsaleP17); safety & crime are the Cork City Garda division.

67/100
Quality of Life
75/100
Kinsale leads

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (P47 / P17) 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.

DunmanwayKinsaleOverall (avg)
Safety67617589
Affordability10051
Infrastructure3648
Family8884
Education5076
Environment7695
Economic5580
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#15
National ranklower is better
#1
Kinsale leads
#3
County ranklower is better
#1
Kinsale leads
61/100
Safety
89/100
Kinsale leads
58.8
Crime / 1,000lower is better
17.3
Kinsale leads

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.

Dunmanway Below average-6.5
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Dunmanway North -9 (least affluent) → Dunmanway North -5 (most affluent). Every neighbourhood is below the national average.
Kinsale Above average+3.0
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Kinsale Urban -1 (least affluent) → Kinsale Rural +7 (most affluent). It straddles the national average.

How accurate is this, and at what level?

TOWN
Prices, amenities and commute are exact and 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.

ED
Affluence, profile and tenure are Electoral-Division level.

Published per Electoral Division and averaged across the town’s EDs, with a range where the town spans several.

AREA
Liveability and safety are wider-area, not the town.

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

Population growth isn’t shown: the 2016 and 2022 censuses don’t use the same Small Areas, and the areas that were re-cut are the ones that grew, so a like-for-like comparison understates growth badly. Rent and yield are still too sparse to show per town. Built from 30 CSO Small Areas.

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