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Parnell Place Bus Station is the principal bus station in Cork, ... Bus Éireann: 236 [10] Bandon, Bantry, Glengarriff: Goleen: Bus Éireann: 237 [11] Clonakilty ...
Other nearby schools were Gurtalasa, Four Mile Water, Durrus, Bantry, Whiddy, Rusnacaharagh and Morragh (Methodist Durrus). Normally a school would have to be more than three miles (5 km) from another school but in this case the application was approved from 1 January 1898 in the exceptional circumstance of a mountain range preventing children ...
A TFI Local Link bus service passes through Ahakista on a route which travels from Kilcrohane to Allihies (via Bantry). [10] The nearest major airport is Cork Airport . People
Bantry in Olden Days: Richard S. Harrison (Published by Author) J. Kevin Hourihane, Town Growth in West Cork: Bantry 1600–1900 in JCHAS (1977), LXXXii, no 236, 83–97. Wild Gardens: The Lost Demesnes of Bantry Bay Nigel Everett, Hafod Press. An Irish Arcadia: The Historic Gardens of Bantry House Nigel Everett, Hafod Press 1999 ISBN 0-9535995-0-7
The Cork City Railways were constructed in 1911 and opened in 1912 to connect the Irish standard gauge systems north and south of the River Lee in Cork, Ireland. [ 1 ] In the 19th century Cork city had a population of the order of 80,000 [ 2 ] and was served by up to five operating companies, mostly to separate stations around the city.
Albert Quay terminus Cork, 1948. Cork, Bandon and South Coast Railway (CB&SCR), was an Irish gauge (1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in)) railway in Ireland.It opened in 1849 as the Cork and Bandon Railway (C&BR), changed its name to Cork Bandon and South Coast Railway in 1888 and became part of the Great Southern Railway (GSR) in 1924.
The barony of Bantry takes its name from the Gaelic Irish tribe of the Benntraige ("Benn's people"), [5] believed to be connected to the Coriondi, mentioned in Ptolemy's 2nd century Geography. [6] A portion of the tribe later colonised southwest Munster, giving their name to Bantry, County Cork , Bantry barony and Bantry Bay .
Sheep's Head, also known as Muntervary (Irish: Rinn Mhuintir Bháire), is the headland at the end of the Sheep's Head peninsula situated between Bantry Bay and Dunmanus Bay in County Cork, Ireland. The peninsula is popular with walkers, and the Sheep's Head Way is an 88 km long-distance trail which follows old tracks and roads around the ...