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52 Lower Glanmire Rd, Cork

Home of Blennerhassett Cashel when he was goods head for the GSWR at Cork.

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.

52 Lower Glanmire Rd (last house on block).
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From Google Street View.

This site says the house is 18th century.
It certainly existed before 1842.
The Great Southern and Western Railway (GSWR) reached Cork in 1849 - the first railway to Cork.
The house at some point became GSWR property.

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.

52 Lower Glanmire Rd (marked in yellow), before the railway (before 1842).
From 1829 to 1842 map.

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.

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Modern pictures

52 Lower Glanmire Rd (yellow house, last house on block).
Photo 2006. See full size.
Light adjusted digitally. See original.
See alternate shot.

Front door.
Perhaps late Georgian / early Victorian. Note boot scraper.
Photo 2006. See full size.

Strange number "153" inside front door. Maybe got door frame from another house.
Photo 2006. See full size.

The back of the house, showing access to railway yard. Photo 2006. See full size.
See alternate shot.

Video 2006 showing the railway yard and the back of the house.
From here. Hosted at my YouTube account.
Download AVI file.