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BANDON, or BANDONBRIDGE

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 313 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BANDON, or BANDONBRIDGE  , a See also:market-See also:town of See also:county See also:Cork, See also:Ireland, in the See also:south-See also:east See also:parliamentary See also:division, picturesquely situated in a broad open valley on both sides of the See also:river See also:Bandon . Pop . (1901) 2830 . It iS 20 M . S.W. of the See also:city of Cork by the Cork, Bandon & South See also:Coast railway . It is an important agricultural centre and there are distilleries, breweries and See also:flour-See also:mills . The open See also:park of See also:Castle See also:Bernard (See also:earl of Bandon), on the See also:riverside, is attractive, and 2 M. below Bandon on the river is Innishannon, the See also:head of See also:navigation . Bandon was founded See also:early in the 17th See also:century by See also:Richard See also:Boyle, earl of Cork, and was incorporated by See also:James I . It returned two members to the Irish See also:parliament and thereafter one to the Imperial parliament until 1885 . After the destruction of the walls by the Irish in 1689, Bandon See also:long resisted the See also:admission of See also:Catholic inhabitants .

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