Skibbereen to Crookhaven:

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Griffith’s ‘Wellesley Roads’ included Skibbereen to Crookhaven, 46 km. built between 1826 and 1829 and costing £13,466,

Griffiths  Cork projects known as the ‘Wellesley Roads’ included Skibbereen to Crookhaven, 46 km. built between 1826 and 1829 and costing £13,466, Bantry to Skibbereen, Crookhaven to Bantry and the road to north Cork to Banteer.   HIs works are characterised by a high degree of engineering excellence. It was said that in building bridges he insisted on going to bed rock for foundations, the Grand Jury contractors would be happy with building on gravel resulting in so many were washed away in floods.  His schemes highlights the deficiencies of the Grand Jury system and might be looked at like the recently completed motorway schemes in Ireland. The effects were dramatic, on the Mizen Peninsula they first wheeled carts made their appearance.  Alexander Nimmo (1783-1832), the Scots Engineer who was also involved said the North Cork Road opened up the entire area to commerce with a beneficial result.

1824, Evidence of Sir Richard Griffith Esq., Road Engineer, to House of Commons Select Committee, on Harmony in West Cork between Protestant and Catholics, Distress of 1822, Only Part of Ireladn he Employed Poor Protestants on Road Building, Evidence of Alexander Nimmo, Scots Road Engineer on Building of 19 miles on the Northern Side of Bantry Bay under Joint Supervision of Captain O’Sullivan Most of His Workers are His Tenants Not Paid in Cash but in Rent Abatement. Elsewhere Nimmo’s evidence of Enormous Economic Benefits of Road Building

Griffith’s Roads: Report of Patrick Leahy, Civil Engineer, 1834 to Co. Cork Grand July of Progress of Road from Dunmanus Bay to Skibbereen, Nearly Completed, Extension to Ballydehob Approved, and Report of Edmund Leahy, County Surveyor to Grand July 1840 on Ballylickey to Crookstown, 27 miles Active, Bantry to Glengariff 10 miles Near Completion, Crookhaven to Barleycove, Ballydehob to Bantry To Be Finished Current Season.