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Irish Narrow Gauge - Blackrock

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Blackrock - CB&PR

• osi: W712716, map DM087
• Blackrock - in Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of 1842
• track diagram: [CBPRJ: d-5-p68- ]
• signal box: [CBPRJ: b-6-p69- ]
• station: [CBPRJ: b-6-p69- ]
• staff:
  • stationmaster:
    • 1886: Thomas McCarthy
    • 1892: Patrick Coughlan
    • 1898: Eugene McCarthy
    • 1903: T. Howard
    • 1907: R. Kidney
    • 1912: T. McSweeney
    • 1918: D. Donovan
    • 1924: David Dempsey
• Cassell's 1899:

  Blackrock, village on the Lee, parish of St. Finbar (q.v.), SE county Cork, Ireland, 3 miles east of Cork. The church, in the Perpendicular style, is a chapel-of-ease to the cathedral of St. Finbar ; there is also a Roman Catholic chapel, an Ursuline convent (which, with its chapel, stands in extensive grounds), two lunatic asylums, and several schools. The surrounding landscape is of great beauty. The castle, founded 1604, was rebuilt 1830, its lofty tower being utilised as a lighthouse. Dundanion Castle and King Mahon Castle are in ruins. Amethysts have been found in the neighbourhood. Beaumont, Castle Mahon, and Lakelands are seats in finely-wooded parks. Population: 593.