Tower, County Cork
| Tower Irish: Teamhair | |
| County Cork | |
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.jpg) Huntsman pub, Tower | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | W632766 |
| Location: | 51°55’30"N, 8°36’29"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 3,421 (2016) |
| Local Government | |
| Dáil constituency: |
Cork North-Central |
Tower is a village in County Cork which has become a suburb of the county town, Cork. It is to the north-west of the city, approximately two miles from the town of Blarney on the R617 road and like Blarney it has become a commuter village for Cork city.
There are two pubs in the village (The Huntsman and Aunties Bar), and a supermarket.
History
The 1845 Ordnance Survey map shows a hamlet called Tower Village at the junction of the townlands of Coolflugh, Kilnamucky, and Cloghphilip. By 1902, the Cork and Muskerry Light Railway branch line to Blarney had a station at Tower Bridge.[1] This prompted development of a model village by O'Mahony builders along what is now the Model Village Road.
There was further growth in the Celtic Tiger era, with the population growing by 116% between the censuses of 1991 and 2002. It grew more slowly thereafter, reaching 3,306 in 2011.[2]
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References
- ↑ "Cork Sheets 73-02 and 73-03". 25-inch map. Ordnance Survey Ireland. 1 June 1902. http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,558080,574899,10,9. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
- ↑ "Census 2011 - Area Profile for Town - Tower, County Cork". Census 2011. Central Statistics Office. 2012. http://census.cso.ie/areaprofiles/PDF/ST/tower.pdf. Retrieved 12 May 2018.