Kilbarry, Cork City

A train passing through Kilbarry in 1989

Kilbarry (Irish: Cill Bharra)[1] is a townland in the civil parish of Saint Anne's on the northside of Cork City in Ireland.[2] Located close to the suburb of Blackpool, Kilbarry itself had just 56 residents in 2011.[3] It is primarily zoned for commercial use, and an IDA Ireland business park occupies 190 of the townland's 300 acres.[2][4] Delaney Rovers GAA also have a pitch at Kilbarry.

Railway halt

Formerly the site of a small rail yard and siding on the Dublin–Cork railway line,[5] Irish Rail applied for planning permission to construct a station at Kilbarry in 2008.[6] As of 2013, funding and planning for a number of proposed stations (including Kilbarry) had been scrapped,[7] and by 2017 it was confirmed that the station's construction had been "permanently" "shelved".[8][9] The Cork Metropolitan Area Draft Transport Strategy 2040, a public consultation document published by the National Transport Authority in May 2019, included "Blackpool/Kilbarry" as one of several possible train station locations in the area.[10]

References

  1. ^ "Townland - Cill Bharra / Kilbarry". Irish Placenames Commission. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  2. ^ a b "Kilbarry Townland, Co. Cork". Townlands.ie. Retrieved 7 February 2019. Kilbarry [townland] has an area of [..] 309.77 acres
  3. ^ "CD153 - Cork Population by Private Households, Occupied and Vacancy Rate by Townlands, CensusYear and Statistic". data.gov.ie. Central Statistics Office. 2011. Retrieved 7 February 2019. Kilbarry, St. Mary's, Co. Cork [..] 56
  4. ^ "Kilbarry Business Technology Park". idaireland.com. IDA Ireland. Retrieved 7 February 2019. Kilbarry Business & Technology Park is a c.77 hectare (c.190 acre) park located in Cork City
  5. ^ "Former Kilbarry railway yard, Cork". geograph.ie. 1982. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
  6. ^ "Irish Rail Planning Permission Application". Cork City Council. 2008. Archived from the original on 17 February 2013. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
  7. ^ "End of the line for commuter rail stations". Irish Examiner. 28 October 2013.
  8. ^ "Kilbarry Railway Station Plans Shelved". 96fm News. 25 October 2016.
  9. ^ "No platform for station levy refunds". Cork Independent. 12 January 2017.
  10. ^ "Cork Metropolitan Area Draft Transport Strategy 2040 – Public Consultation Document" (PDF). nta.ie. National Transport Authority. May 2019. Retrieved 14 May 2019.

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