Parishioners attending the Midday Mass were shocked this morning (Sunday, 17th. February) to learn that the Cross containing a Relic of Saint Patrick has gone missing, presumed stolen. The brass cross, in a locked steel cabinet, and imbedded in a pillar to the right hand side of the main altar, held a bone fragment believed [...]

Great turnout today – A big thank you to all those who could attend – The plan to scan photos went out the window as we were inundated with information but maybe we can plan another meet up some time in the Summer! Hi All, someone mentioned to me that it would be good to [...]

GENERAL DIRECTORY OF CORK FOR 1867 Cork City Street Directory (Henry & Coghlan’s) LOWER GLANMIRE ROAD 1 McCarthy, John, spirit dealer 2 Moynihan, James, ship carpenter 3 Power, John 5 Dispensary, Dr. Armsstrong, Medical Officer 9/10 Horgan, John, grocer 10 Constabulary Barrack, Constable T. Maher, Officer in charge 18 McKenzie, Thomas, shipwright 19 Villenoweth, John, [...]

Kent train station plans new entrance building Iarnród Éireann have lodged major plans for a new entrance building and parking on the southern side of Kent Railway Station. It will mean traffic using the station will be able to enter and leave from Horgan’s Quay rather than the current entrance on the Lower Glanmire Road.The company [...]

Welcome to the website for The Lower Glanmire Road, Cork City, Ireland. I’d like to hear from you if you have a connection with the Lower Road. Please contact me by e-mail or mobile telephone. e: info@thelowerroad.net t: +353 (0)86 601 1928 My aim is to collect more information about the Lower Road. I will add [...]

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Here is a link to the 1911 Census webpage for the Lower Road.Some familiar family names are on the list! Who lived in your house 100 years ago?

1963 Cork Veteran Run www.munstervintage.com – We’re looking a your assistance in finding details on these pictures from the 1963 Cork Veteran Run – can you help??? Thanks to Robert Swan And William Cuddy who have supplied a few details on the pictures – and to Alan Cavanagh for supplying the photographs. More info & [...]

8 Rockgrove Square and The Lower Road I suppose everyone thinks thinks the place they in which they grew up is special, but the Lower Road was such a special place when I was growing up there. Everybody knew everybody from the Coliseum to what we used to call ‘The Radio School’. Going up or [...]

The Breadman My father, a typical droll West Cork man came to the City with one of his brothers around the 1930s. They got a job fairly quickly on the trams, my father as a conductor and my uncle as a driver. They were happy enough at this job but the pay not being great, [...]

Steam Trains on the Lower Road 1962

The history of Cork City is built around the River Lee and the access to the open sea.

Water Street Bridge is a Bascule-type lifting bridge. Its design is aesthetic, with a “seagull” profile to the overhead bridge structure.

A sweet story from Cork... HADJI BEYS TURKISH DELIGHT, made in Cork city by an Armenian, Harutun Batmazian, who arrived in the city in 1902 as an exile fleeing the pogroms sweeping across the Ottoman empire.

A special celebration for the 175th anniversary of St. Patrick's church took place on 15th of October 2011 at 6.30pm.

Jervois’ Shop by Kathleen Jervois Fitzgerald c2005 I was about four or five years old when my parents opened No. 169 Lower Glanmire Road as a business. The name in ceramic letters across the front window was impressive. The Demesne Dairy was so-called after my mother’s home in Co. Tipperary. My father had made up [...]

Love Hearts down The Lower Road by Margaret Ivers c2005 In the Sping of 1946, not long after my fourth birthday, I started school. Pat Fox, who was six months older than me, lived next door in Clehane’s Cottages, and at that time children were packed off to school as and when they were deemed [...]

In the early 19th. Century, the shipbuilding yards on the Lower Glanmire Road (within St. Patrick’s Parish) were the most important in the country. By 1840, both Cork and Waterford were the pioneers of iron shipbuilding in Ireland. Vessels of up to 500 tonnes could be repaired in both of Cork’s shipbuilding yards. Prominent names [...]

The following is an article written by Mr. Vincent O'Sullivan, former Principal of St. Patricks School and included in a publication celebrating the 50th. anniversary (1987)of the Schools opening.

The Lower Road 1948-1964 by Mrs. Catherine Moran (nee Rea) c2005 In the early 1900′s the ‘Spillane’ family ran a grocers shop at 116 Lower Road, and they lived over the shop. They were a large family. Some of them went to America. In the time of the troubles it would have been known as [...]