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Bandon, Oregon. Bandon (/ ˈbændən /) is a city in Coos County, Oregon, United States, on the south side of the mouth of the Coquille River. It was named by George Bennet, an Irish peer, who settled nearby in 1873 and named the town after Bandon in Ireland, his hometown. The population was 3,066 at the 2010 census [5] and by the 2020 census ...
Bandon (/ ˈbændən /; Irish: Droichead na Bandan) is a town in County Cork, Ireland. It lies on the River Bandon between two hills. The name in Irish means 'Bridge of the Bandon', a reference to the origin of the town as a crossing point on the river. In 2004 Bandon celebrated its quatercentenary. The town, sometimes called the Gateway to ...
Clergy. Canon (s) Denis MacCarthy. The church as seen from the south westerly entrance to the grounds. St Peter's Church, Ballymodan (also referred to as St Peter's Church, Bandon) is an Anglican Gothic Revival church located in Ballymodan, Bandon, County Cork, Ireland. It was completed in 1849. It is part of the Diocese of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross.
History. Originally named Bandon Light, Coquille River Light was commissioned in 1895. First lit on February 29, 1896, the light guided mariners past the dangerous shifting sandbars into the Coquille River and harbor at Bandon. The light contained a fourth-order Fresnel lens and connected to the nearby keepers house by a wooden walkway.
Bandon Dunes was also the site of the 2019 U.S. Amateur Four-Ball. Old Macdonald's was the primary course used for the event, with Pacific Dunes also used. In 2020, the resort hosted the U.S. Amateur for the first time. Bandon Dunes was the primary course, with Bandon Trails used as the second course for the stroke-play portion of the event. [18]
Steamboat. The Coquille River starts in the Siskiyou National Forest and flows through the Coquille Valley on its way to the Pacific Ocean. Bandon, Oregon, sits at the mouth of the Coquille River on the Pacific Ocean. Before the era of railroads and later, automobiles, the steamboats on the Coquille River were the major mode of transportation ...
Ballineen and Enniskean. The twin villages of Ballineen (Irish: Béal Átha Fhínín, meaning 'mouth of Fineen's ford') [2] and Enniskeane, [3][4] or Enniskean, (Irish: Inis Céin, meaning 'island of Cian') [5][6] in County Cork in Ireland are 43 km (26.72 mi) southwest of Cork City, on the R586 road. The linear settlement lies on the River ...
21.5 m 3 /s (760 cu ft/s) The River Bandon (Irish: Abhainn na Bandan, from ban-dea, meaning "goddess") [2] is a river in County Cork, Ireland. The Bandon rises at Nowen Hill (one of the Shehy Mountains), to the north of Drimoleague. The river then flows to Dunmanway, before turning eastward towards the twin villages of Ballineen and Enniskean.