Rylane is a small village on the northern edge of Muskerry, in the hills between Cork city and Macroom. The roads here are quiet and the landscape is the unremarkable but pleasant kind — green fields, stone walls, the odd farmhouse set back from the road.
Macroom is 15km west. Ballincollig is 15km east. The village itself has a GAA club that takes its hurling seriously, a church, and not much else that a visitor would specifically seek. That's honest-scarcity territory — nothing invented, nothing omitted.
On minor roads north of the N22 between Cork and Macroom. Off the R619 Crookstown road.