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¾ mile tunneljfrom Blackpool to railway terminus on Lr Glanmire Rd. Contractor: William Dargan. For Great Southern & Western Railway Co. Work begun with sinking of ventilation shafts, Aug 1847. Headings met under Cork Barracks, July 29th 1854, and a few days later chairman, some directors, secretary and engineer of GSWR walked full length of it. Rails not yet laid at this time.
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Cork Examiner, 23 Aug 1847,7 Aug 1854 (information from Roger Herlihy, Cork, Oct,Dec 2010); Holly Bough (Cork Examiner,1955), 5; R.C. Cox & M.H. Gould, Civil Engineering Heritage: Ireland (1998), 256-7; Colin Rynne, The Industrial Archaeology of Cork City and its Environs (1999), 209 (information from Roger Herlihy, Cork, Oct 2010).
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