No.

Description

1D

Foundation Stone The foundation stone of the 1898 memorial was laid on 26th December 1898. The Gaslamp standard on this site is one of the originals erected by the Gas Commission in 1835

2D

Methodist Church (Weslean Church) Built in 1821 to replace a Meeting House. The inside of this church has remained the same since its creation and is of great architectural significance.

3D

Hickey’s Corner MC Hickey had many business interests in the town including public houses, a bottling store for whiskey, a bicycle factory and he also ran the Gas Works up to 1920.

4D

Bridge This bridge was built in 1858 to replace one built by John Lodden in 1636.

5D

Public car park The Earl of Cork once had an Alms house on this site. It was later turned into a sawmill and timber yard by the Pope family in 1840 and later the Harte family from 1928 to 1984.

6D

Ballymodan Boys National School The school plaque remains over the western doorway. Built as a primitive Methodist Preaching House in 1823, it continued until 1881. It was later used as a social hall, leased by the Local Defence Force in 1940 and later as a band room.

7D

Health Centre This was Ballymodan Boys School up to 1881 when it moved next store.

8D

Old Potato Market On the site occupied by the large supermarket in the Bandon Shopping Centre. It was established in 1620 and continued up to 1950. A cinema was built nearby in 1926.

9D

South Market House The Library is now situated on this site. It was originally built in 1620 and contained Municipal offices, a Courthouse and Market Jury room. The area was once used for church services and in more recent times, used as a garage from 1923.

10D

Car Park and old folks flatlets The site of the house occupied by the Commander of British Forces in West Cork in 1978

11D

St Peter’s Church Built on the site of a former church, this church was designed by John Welland of Dublin. The foundation stone was laid on 9th March 1847 and consecrated on 30th August 1849. The only surviving council book of the Old Bandon Corporation is preserved within the Church. The old town walls forms its western and southern boundaries and the remains of a flanker tower can be seen at the south western junction. A lot more interesting facts about St Peters is available on the bandon.ie website.

12D

Old Garda Station Originally built as a hotel in 1864, the Old Garda Station closed on 31st March 1991 and moved to a newer building just around the corner. The wide area in front and up as far as St Peters was the fowl market and a nearby section was the Egg market.

13D

St Michael’s Centre Was once the Temperance Hotel from 1880 to 1925. It later became a maternity home and more recently was converted to flatlets for the elderly by a local committee in 1971.

14D

New Garda Station
Site of an old Tannery, Flour Mill as well as a Grain Store. It later accommodated two Coach Factories – Fulhams and Milners.

15D

The Old Town Wall At the rear of the Garda Station there stands some of the best preserved sections of the old Bandon Town Wall. North of the Garda Station is another section of the wall. It contains a tower by the river and a small section was crudely rebuilt in 1980.
Across the river is what looks like a small island overgrown with trees and vegetation. This is the base of another tower.

16D

Butter Market A once thriving but now long closed business within the town

17D

Old Woollen Mill Was Scott’s Woollen Mill. In 1835 a chimney and engine house were added and it was powered by the first steam engine to be installed in Bandon thus giving the name ‘Factory Lane’.

18D

McSwiney Quay Built by the Duke of Devonshire in 1807. Along this roadway it was proposed to build a canal from Innishannon to Dunmanway. When the roadway was constructed, culverts were built to facilitate those who had established rights to water animals at the river. These openings can still be seen on the quay wall.

19D

Factory / Begley’s Lane A Quaker Meeting House was located near here dating from 1728 to 1800 and was recorded as still standing in 1890.

20D

Chemist Shop On this site in 1649 lived an admirer of Cromwell and it is said that the Lord protector used to rest when he visited Bandon.

21D

AIB Premises The old section was built in 1869 as the Munster Bank, this bank failed in 1885, opened as the Munster & Leinster in the same year, was extended in 1905 , 1981 and also in 2006.

22D

Bank of Ireland Built in 1882, extended in 1988.