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1812. Coach from Cork to Skibbereen, Leaves Burchill’s Bush Tavern, George’s St. (Washington St.) 6 am Arriving Skibbereen 6 pm via Innishanon, Bandon, Clonakilty, Rosscarbery. Reaching Skibbereen 6pm.
Burchills Tavern suggests a link to the west by name. Many of the name are in Crookhaven.
At this period the road improvements to the west had started to kick in. Further roads to Crookhaven and further west on the Beara Peninsula would be another 20 years. Indeed work still need to be done
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1843 Coach Certificates:
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1843. Mail and Day Coach Timetable and Fares from Cork to Bandon, Clonakilty, Bantry, Enniskeane, Macroom, Skibbereen. Sample Coach Leaves Bantry 8.15 am, Cork 3.15 pm Fare 14 shillings. Inside, 10 shillings Outside.
Late 19th Century Coach Service Dunmanway to Glengariff Run by Andrew Brophy later taken over by Thomas Vickery of Bantry.
1829, Thomas J. Hungerford’s Cork and Skibbereen Union Coach.
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1729 Turnpike Trust. 1822 Cork, Skibbereen and Kinsale Turnpike (Toll Road), Tolled to 1843. 1839 Funding by Commissioner of Public Works, Loan to Trustees of Cork, Skibbereen and Kinsale Turnpike, For road from Castletownbere to Dursey Island, For a Railway From Certain Bogs to Supply Cork with Turf.
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West Cork History 
So 15s (outside) or 20s (inside) to travel by coach from Cork To Skibbereen in 1812. Can anyone put that is perspective for me by comparison with incomes or rents or similar? I understand that in late Victorian London’s East End a poor working class family had to get by on ‘Round about a pound a week’ ie 20s per the book of that name. So translating from urban London to rural Ireland 100 years earlier, the fare sounds astronomical!
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