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Irish Narrow Gauge - Kilcoe

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Kilcoe - S&SR

• osi 100m reference: W028349, map DM088
• Kilcoe - in Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of 1842
• track diagram: [SSRJB: d-6-p134- ]
• photos: [INGV1: b-7-p17-1938.07.01 ]
  [SSRJB: b-6-p134-1938 b-6-p135-1939 ]
• water tower: [IRHOS: b-4-p51-1938.07.01 ]
• crossing keepers cottage: [SSRJB: b-6-p135-1954 ]
• halt: [SSRJB: b-6-p135-1954 ]
• crossing keeper: 1886: William Nolan
• Cassell's 1899:

  Kilcoe, parish, West Carbery barony, Southwest co Cork, Ireland, 4½ miles west of Skibbereen ; acreage 5,272. The parish lies round the north-eastern shores of Roaringwater Bay, and includes some small islands in that bay. The soil is rough, and consists chiefly of bare rocks of clay-slate, with small patches of light soil on a clay-slate base, which have been almost created by manuring. The parish church was built in 1830. On a tongue of land stand the ruins of Kilcoe Castle, a stronghold of the McCarthys, the remains consisting of a large square tower with a small turret. Population: 909.