No.

Description

1A

Main Bridge Built in 1773 and enlarged in 1838. The site of an earlier bridge lay to the west of the current bridge.

2A

Milk and Vegetable Market This was on the site of the Allin gardens and was in use up to 1903. It was originally built in 1881.

3A

Allin Institute Was originally donated by James Allin, a native of Youghal, for use as a Protestant recreation centre. It had three stories at one point but this was burned by the old IRA on 23rd June 1921 in reprisal for some of its members being involved in the destruction of the Maid of Erin monument in the April of that year.

4A

Ragged or Penny Bun School Located in a building adjoining the Allin Institute closer to the river.

5A

Scots Presbyterian Church Built in 1843 for worship by the Trinitarian Presbyterians replaced the first church that was built near the Courthouse. It is now the Riverside Hall of the Christian Brethren.

6A

Watergate School (1864) Was for the education of the children of those who worshipped in the adjoining church and was the first Protestant national school in Bandon.

7A

Bandon Creamery Established in 1903 on the site of an old tannery.

8A

Rosebank Built on another tannery. The Irish patriot, Sean Hales had a sawmill on this site which was burnt down by British troops in 1920. A large steam engine nickname St Patrick provided the power for this.

9A

Simplicity Clothing Was located on the site of an old brewery built by George Cornwall in 1785. This business was continued by his son Henry and this business was in turn, taken over by the famous Allman distillery family in 1865. This brewery was later bought by Beamish & Crawford in 1913. The manufacture of ‘Little Norah’ minerals and the bottling of stout and ales was carried on here until the business was transferred to Cork in 1967.

10A

Wesleyan Methodist School Used as a school until 1904, later used as a recreation hall until its closure in 1980.

11A

First Local Authority Houses Built by the Bandon Town Commissioners in 1912 on the site of yet another tannery.

12A

Post Office This building was originally built as a branch of the Provincial Bank of Ireland in 1839. When the bank merged with the Munster & Leinster bank in 1974 it changed use to that of a private residence but this was later bought by An Post in 1985 where it was reconstructed and opened as a new Post Office.

13A

Sean Hales Monument Erected by former comrades of Sean Hales. He was the O.C. Bandon Battalion of the old IRA 1918-21, a TD in South Cork1921-22 and Brig General in the New Free State Army 1922. Another memorial once stood at this site due to a dispute over a grave in Christchurch graveyard. This memorial was later re-erected on the original grave c1909. An outline of this memorial is carved into the top of the stone tablet on the eastern wall of the bridge.

14A

Gap between Post Office and building west of it The old town wall passed through this site and the gate known as Watergate was in the centre of the roadway. This gate did not have a castle or gatehouse similar to the other three town gates.