Milford () is a small village in

County Cork County Cork ( ga, Contae Chorcaí) is the largest and the southernmost county of Ireland, named after the city of Cork, the state's second-largest city. It is in the province of Munster and the Southern Region. Its largest market towns are ...

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. It is in the

townland A townland ( ga, baile fearainn; Ulster-Scots: ''toonlann'') is a small geographical division of land, historically and currently used in Ireland and in the Western Isles in Scotland, typically covering . The townland system is of Gaelic orig ...

of Kilbolane on regional road R515, close to, but on the Cork side of, the border with

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. Milford is within the Cork North-West Dáil constituency. Milford has two pubs, a local church, an ancient castle, a primary school, a creamery, a Garda station, and a tennis court. It has scored very highly in the National Tidy Towns competition in recent years. It is located half a kilometre from

Kilbolane Castle Kilbolane Castle is a historical fortification atop Kilbolane Hill, half a kilometre from the village of Milford, County Cork, Ireland. The castle was built in the 15th or 16th century but employed a 13th-century Norman style with high walls ...

, historically the local seat of power. The local church is the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

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Towns and villages in County Cork {{Cork-geo-stub

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