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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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https://durrushistory.com/2016/04/13/1829-thomas-j-hungerfords-cork-and-skibbereen-union-coach/
https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/8993
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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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