School: Convent of Mercy, An Pasáiste, Corcaigh
- Location:
- Passage West, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Na Siúracha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0390, Page 155
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- (continued from previous page)On June 26th 1847 the first sod of turf was cut marking the sight of the Cork, Blackrock, and Passage railway. It was doubtful at first if the railway would ever be completed but fortunately some business men took it into their hands and completed it. At the end of three years the first train passed over the line to the delight of the city people who wished to go to the country. From Cork to Passage it was not very difficult to make the line but at Blackrock they had to make a deep cutting to reach the mouth of the Douglas Channel. From that they had to fill in the line as far as Horse Head, from which place they had to build a sea wall to the station at Passage which finished the work for the(continues on next page)
