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Charles Wesley  Bandon, Co. Cork, 8th September 1746 and his brother John, 9th September addressing Bandon Meeting ‘By far the largest that I have seen in Ireland’

Bandon and west Cork were somewhat unusual that unlike most of Ireland excepting Dublin, Cork and Northern Ireland there was a substantial population of relatively poor Protestant labourers, artisans and small farmers.  This was the group which provided many of the early adherents to early Methodism.

John Wesley’s Cork Visitations, 1750, 1752, 1762, including Bandon, Kinsale, meeting Whiteboys and their Oath to Queen Sive and overview of Methodism in West Cork.

John Wesley, Founder of Methodism, Bandon, Co. Cork, 1752, ‘Preached in the street both this evening and at five o’clock on Tuesday morning October 3rd 1752, the moon supplied as much light as we needed till the sun supplied her place’

John Wesley preaching in room over Old Market House, Innishannon, Co. Cork