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On 17 May 1860 the Great Southern and Western Railway (GS&WR) opened a 16 + 3 ⁄ 4 miles (27.0 km) branch from Mallow (on its Dublin to Cork main line) to Fermoy. [2] An extension from Fermoy to Lismore was approved to be constructed by the Fermoy and Lismore Railway in 1869 and following opening on 1 October 1872 was operated by the GS&WR. [2]
Fermoy is situated on the river Blackwater and has steep hills corresponding to the river valley. The downtown area of Fermoy is located in a flood plain and has flooded relatively often in the late 20th and early 21st century. [14] The most expensive flood prevention works ever carried out in Cork were completed in Fermoy in 2015. [15]
Past Lismore the road is of poorer quality, travelling via Tallowbridge and Fermoy to Mallow in County Cork. Some sections between Fermoy and Mallow are narrow with sharp bends and few hard shoulders. The section from Mallow to the R579 junction has hard shoulders.
The Fermoy to Mitchelstown section of the M8 opened on 25 May 2009. [16] The former single carriageway N8 that ran between these towns was then reclassified, for the most part, as the R639 except for a section of the Mitchelstown Relief Road which became a part of the N73 national secondary route.
The R639 leaving Fermoy heading south. The R639 runs parallel to the M8 from its junction with the N77 in Durrow in County Laois to the N8 on the Lower Glanmire Road 1.5 km west of the Dunkettle Interchange on the outskirts of Cork City.
The M8 motorway (Irish: Mótarbhealach M8) is an inter-urban motorway in Ireland, which forms part of the motorway from the capital Dublin to Cork city.The 149 km motorway commences in the townland of Aghaboe, County Laois and runs through the counties of Kilkenny, Tipperary and Limerick, terminating at the Dunkettle interchange in Cork City.
The East Barracks were designed and built by Abraham Hargrave on a site provided by John Anderson between 1801 and 1806. [1] In June 1808 Sir Arthur Wellesley used the barracks as an assembly point from where 9,000 troops would depart for the Cove of Cork and then sail for Portugal to take part in the Peninsular War.
Mallow (/ ˈ m æ l oʊ /; Irish: Mala [3]) is a town in County Cork, Ireland, approximately thirty-five kilometres north of Cork. Mallow is in a townland and civil parish of the same name, in the barony of Fermoy. [3] It is the administrative centre of north County Cork, and the Northern Divisional Offices of Cork County Council are located in ...