Kilbarry

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.

A train passing through Kilbarry in 1989

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] The development of this station was subsequently delayed,[7] and by 2013 funding and planning for a number of proposed stations (including Kilbarry) was scrapped.[8] By early 2017, it was confirmed that the station's construction had been "permanently" "shelved",[9][10] with no plans to refund developers or individuals who had paid the levies charged to fund the construction.[10] 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.[11]

References
  1. "Townland - Cill Bharra / Kilbarry". Irish Placenames Commission. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  2. "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. "Public transport projects delayed". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 28 August 2009.
  8. "End of the line for commuter rail stations". Irish Examiner. 28 October 2013.
  9. "Kilbarry Railway Station Plans Shelved". 96fm News. 25 October 2016.
  10. "No platform for station levy refunds". Cork Independent. 12 January 2017.
  11. "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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