Genealogy research by Mark Humphrys.
52 Lower Glanmire Rd
is beside
Cork railway station.
First house on RHS outside gate of railway station,
at end of block whose back walls are the railway yard.
This site says the house is 18th century.
Blennerhassett Cashel
was goods superintendant for the
GSWR at Cork.
He moved to Cork to live in this house in 1893,
when the new
Cork railway station
was built
(replacing earlier station).
He lived in this house until his retirement 1911.
See house and building return
in 1901 census.
5 windows in front of house.
9 rooms.
The mar cert
of Kathleen Cashel in 1904
shows the house really was no.52.
That is the street numbering, not just the census numbering.
See entry
for him in Stephen O'Mara's address book
[P40/234].
Also shows it is no.52.
See house and building return
in 1911 census.
7 windows in front of house.
9 rooms.
When Blennerhassett Cashel retired in Oct 1911, he left the GSWR property.
The house is now "Tara House" Bed and Breakfast.
Lower Glanmire Rd on
Ordnance Survey of Ireland map.
Date created: 1892.
From here.
Though map must be updated after 1892, since the new railway station was built in 1893.
No.52 is the leftmost house of the block of 6 opposite Woburn Place.
52 Lower Glanmire Rd (marked in yellow).
From 1887 to 1913 map.
Must be after 1893, since the new railway station was built in 1893.
Later map than the above. See some extra building at the station.
Part of the entry for Lower Glanmire Road in
[Guy's Directory of Cork, 1897, p.407].
The 6 houses here are clearly the 6 houses seen on the map, with Blen Cashel in no.52.
There has been no re-numbering.
Note also Riordan in no.49.
See later entry in
[Guy's Directory of Cork, 1903, p.490].
Riordan has just left. Cashel is still there.
Front door.
Perhaps late Georgian / early Victorian.
Note boot scraper.
Photo 2006.
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Strange number "153" inside front door.
Maybe got door frame from another house.
Photo 2006.
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The back of the house, showing access to railway yard.
Photo 2006.
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See alternate shot.
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