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Irish Narrow Gauge - Ballydehob

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Ballydehob - S&SR

• osi 100m reference: V991353, map DM088
• Ballydehob - in Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of 1842
• National Photographic Archive,Lawrence Collection: LROY10264
• map: [SSRJB: m-5-p142-1901 ]
• track diagram: [SSRJB: d-6-p144-1953 ]
• photos: [INGV1: b-5-p18-1938.07.01 ]
  [SSRJB: b-4-ep- b-6-p145-1938 b-6-p209-1936 ]
  [SSTAN b-6-p16-1920 ]
• road bridge: [SSRJB: b-6-p145- ]
• station: [SSRJB: b-5-p147-1936 b-6-p140-1938 ]
  [RRIMB: b-4-p18-1918 ]
• viaduct:
  • designed by: S. A. Kirkby & John William Dorman
  • IEI HEW No. 3106
  • photos: [INGV1: b-7-p18-1938.07.01 ]
    [SSRJB: b-5-p146- b-5-p147-1936 ]
• water tower: [SSRJB: b-6-p144-1936 ]
• staff:
  • 1886: station master: Jim Daly
• Cassell's 1899:

  Ballydehob, village on the shores of Roaringwater Bay, parish of Skull (q.v.), SW county Cork, Ireland, 8 miles West of Skibbereen. It stands on the road between Skibbereen and Crookhaven, at the base of Mount Gabriel (1,339ft). Copper ore occurs here, and was at one time mined. Population: 496.

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