Ireland/Irish > Black's guide to Killarney and the south of Ireland

CORK TO KILLARNEY.
First Route.
Miles.
COEK.
Bandon (by rail) ... 20 Glengarriff . . 10i 67J
Eimiskean . . . . 8) 281 Kenmare . . . .21 88j
JDunmanway . . . . 8J 37| I KiUarney .... 19 1074
(By rail from Cork to Bandon; thence during the summer season by coach
all the way. Late in autumn a coach goes to Bantry; from thence it will be
necessary to hire a car.)
The line of railway between Cork and Bandon is twenty
miles in length. It passes first over a deep and wide valley,
and then alternately through cuttings in sand or rock, again
emerging into daylight, and running level with rich pastures
on either side.
Hotki..—Devonshire Arms—Bed Is. 6d., breakfast Is. 6d., dinner 2s., tea Is.,
supper Is. I'ares to Bandon, 3s. 4d., 2s. 6d., and Is. 6d.
This town stands on the forfeited property of the chief
O’Mahony, who had joined in the rebellion of the Earl of Des¬
mond. Richard Boyle, afterwards Earl of Cork, purchased in
1602 the greater part of O’Mahony’s property, and in 1608
commenced building a town on the banks of the river Bandon.
It was carefully fortified, but owing to the inhabitants rising
in behalf of James, the walls were removed. The amount of
good done by the first Earl of Cork to the surrounding country
was very great, yet his zealous and persecuting spirit rendered
him as much an object of fear as love.
So strict were Ms Protestant ideas, that in a letter to Secretary Cook, he
boasts that “No Popish recusant, or unconforming novelist is admitted to live
in the town at all; ” and so bitter were Ms feelings against the natives, that, after
detailing in a letter the victory obtained by his son over a few insurgents, he
concludes:—“ And now the boy has blooded Mmself upon them, I hope that God
will so bless him and his majesty’s forces, that, as I now write but of killing an
hundred, 1 shall shortly write of killing of thousands.’’
BANDON.