No.

Description

1C

Kelleher’s Agricultural Supplies The slated section was once the Unitarian Presbyterian Church (1813 – 1908), then became a bakery owned by different groups until 1971.

2C

Stone built store of Kelleher’s Was once the goods store of the Cork and Bandon and successive Railway Companies.

3C

Site of Old Bandon Gas Works Established in 1835 by commissioners for the Lighting and Cleaning of towns. It was once run by the Town Commissioners from 1840 to 1908 and then leased to a Mr Hickey from 1908 until the advent of electricity in 1919

4C

County Council offices Built in 1894 as the passenger station of the Cork, Bandon and South Coast Railway replacing the station built in 1848.

5C

Cork Marts Loading Area The last of Bandon’s Woollen Mills operated here until 1946.

6C

Old Allmans Distillery Established in 1825 by George Allman. The output varied from 200,000 gallons of whiskey by 1860 to 600,000 gallons in 1886. Power was provided by a giant 36ft in diameter waterwheel that was 8 ft wide. There was also a steam engine. The company did a lot of its foreign trade through Kilmacsimon Quay. The introduction of prohibition in the US had a terrible effect on the business.

7C

Monument. To the memory of the 3rd Cork brigade of the Old IRA was unveiled by President Sean T O’Kelly on 2nd August 1953. It was originally to have been erected on South Main St where a foundation stone was laid on 5th October 1924. The names of those who died and on the Roll of Honour were to have been inscribed on the 1925 monument.

8C

Bandon District Hospital Built in 1928 on the site of Bandon Workhouse, itself built in 1841 to accommodate 900 persons and over the following 4 years had between 4,000 and 5,000 inmates.

9C

Bandon Fire Station Based on the site of the old West Cork Bottling Company. Prior to this, Preston’s Timber Yard was on this site. There also stood the Bandon Dispensary and fever Hospital was on an elevated site at the rear of the station.

10C

Old Mineral and Water Bottling Co. Later DP Mc Sweeney’s Garage, it was the premises of JJ Callanan who was awarded prizes at the Cork Exhibition in 1933. The company was later amalgamated with the West Cork Bottling Co. in 1924

11C

Munster Arms Hotel Gen Michael Collins had his last meal here on the evening he was killed at Beal na mBlath on 22nd August 1922. The western part of this was the Charitable Repository and Female School of Industry established in 1814 and continued up to 1881 when it became Ballymodan Girls National School.

12C

Irishtown Bridge Built in 1864 to replace a bridge built by a Mr John Lodden in 1636. Immediately west of this bridge was the East Gate of Bandonbridge. Adjoining this site was the site house in which George Bennett, Historian of Bandonbridge and Bandon Oregon was born.