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Gazetteer Update

I have added a photo and photo gallery for each of the following Cork Stations:

Ballymartle

Bandon

Bandon West Cork

Blarney (Cork & Muskerry)

Castlebernard

Crookstown Road

Donoughmore

Farrangalway

Firmount

Fox’s Bridge

Kilcrea

Kinsale

Knockane

Saint Annes

Tower Bridge

Upton

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Gazetteer update

I have added a photo and photo gallery to the following Cork station pages:

Ballinascarthy

Ballineen

Clonakilty Junction

Courtmacsharry

Desert

Enniskeen

Skeaf

Timoleague

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History

RTE 100 Buildings – Derrinlough Briquette Factory

Another of the buildings featured in RTE’s 100 Buildings series is worth linking to – Derrinlough Briquette Factory in Co. Offaly.

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Site Updates

Gazetteer update

I have added a photo and photo gallery page for the following Cork stations:

Aughaville

Baltimore

Bantry

Bantry Hilltop

Church Cross

Drimoleague Junction

Dunmanway

Durrus Road

Hollyhill

Kilcoe

Knockbue

Madore

Newcourt

Skibbereen

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Locations

Ballydehob Viaduct

Opened in 1886 as part of the narrow gauge Schull and Skibbereen Light Railway which ran, unsurprisingly, between Schull and Skibbereen in Co. Cork, the 12 arch viaduct over Roaringwater Bay is in excellent condition with a walkway along the top, where trains ran until 1947.

Roaringwater Bay Viaduct, Ballydehob, Co. Cork, Ireland
Roaringwater Bay Viaduct, Ballydehob, Co. Cork, Ireland. Copyright Ewan Duffy 2022
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Site Updates

West Cork Stations

I have updated the Gazetteer for another 3 stations in West Cork, with:

Schull

Woodlands Halt

Ballydehob

getting a photograph and photos added.

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IH News 2022

Tractor wars

RTE reports that the BBC will be showing a documentary this autumn about the fall out between Harry Ferguson (inventor of the modern tractor and native of Northern Ireland) and the Ford motor company.

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General

The Cong Canal

This post has nothing to add about this venture, an excellent synopsis of which was written by the late Brian J Goggin on irishwaterwayshistory.com.

I was reminded of this just now when looking for information on the navigation planned for Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo – the reason for this being background work I am doing in updating the Gazetteer map to include primary rivers and lakes.

This will allow me to move into the second phase of the Gazetteer – including canals/river navigations therein. These will take the same format as the railway gazetteer (a map with links to pages for specific features and a photo gallery). However, I am planning to also create separate webpages for each canal/navigation.

This will, in no way, attempt to usurp what Brian has done (very few people, least of all me, would be fit to walk in Brian’s footsteps) but will showcase these features in a different way.

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Site Updates

Brigown siding, Co. Cork

Located on the outskirts of Mitchelstown, Brigown siding was a siding and loading bank for military use.

Although not on the current version of the Gazetteer, I have created a page for it.

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Gazetteer update

I have started to update the photos from my recent trips around Ireland. As a result of this:

Horse & Jockey

Farranalean

Laffansbridge

Mitchelstown

Glanworth

Ballindangan

stations have had a primary photo added as well as a photo gallery.