No.

Description

1E

St Patrick’s Church The foundation stone was laid on 17th March 1856 and was formerly opened on 9th June 1861. Some of the stained glass windows in the church were donated by families as memorials. The West Cork Railway Company had a right of way through a section of the church grounds. A new entrance and steps was created in 1883. The church bell was donated by James P Murphy, Brewer of Cork in 1895. A lot more interesting facts are available on the bandon.ie website.

2E

Bungalow near end of church car park Stands on the site of a station of the West Cork Railway.

3E

Fitzgerald’s Distillery Was in operation from 1835 to 1860 and had at one stage an output of 60,000 gallons of whiskey per annum.

4E

Charlie Hurley GAA park Formerly the lawn and gardens of Clancool House and bought by Bandon Hurling and Football Clubs in 1953

5E

Hurley’s Clancool Brewery Was once located on a site in front of the Millbrook Hospital. The present hospital was once Hurley’s residence.

6E

East Gully Tannery The last survivor of some 17 Bandon tanneries closed in 1900. It had previously been a Mill and the tannery was serviced by a stream which came from Old Chapel

7E

Unkles Mill Built by FB Sweeney c 1790 replacing the original manorial mill of Castlebernard further west.

8E

St Fintan’s National School Built in 1895 on the site of the Hill Chapel. The site for this church was presented by the then Countess of Bandon. The bell was suspended from a tree where it functioned until the church was closed in June 1861.

9E

Kingston Buildings Built in 1802 and leased as a Militia Barracks up to 1873. These buildings have also been used as a houses, a barracks again, a Free State Army Billet, a technical school and again as private houses.

10E

Artillery Barracks Built in 1748, leased to the War Office, left derelict in the 1830’s and demolished in 1878

11E

South Constabulary Barracks Leased from the Kingston estate in 1840. It closed in 1894 and the Bandon Hosiery Factory was established there in 1904. It was demolished in 1926 when the present houses were constructed.

12E

Sealey’s Brewery Was operating in the 1780’s. An original arch still standing marks the entrance to the yard. The West Gate of Bandon stood here. The laneway between the houses on the northern side of the road was where the Town Wall passed through. The line of it can be traced up through Ballymodan graveyard.

13E

Orange Hall Built in 1871, closed in 1912 and converted to a residence and shop in the 1920’s