Carol Collins <collinscarol@hotmail.com> asked: >There was recently posting about shipping with Cork vs. Cobh. Would any >of the timber ships sailing between England, Ireland and Canada during >the 1840's have sailed from Bandon or would they have more likely have >sailed from Cork? My grandmother was born on the Bandon side of the River Bandon from Innishannon. I've walked across the bridge her family would have taken to get from home to Mass and I would have to say that the River Bandon is not a navigable waterway at this point. That is not to say, however, that a small rowboat couldn't have been used to transport a couple of people down the river from Bandon until they reached a port of departure. Kinsale, at the mouth of the River Bandon is a port and at one time was being considered a rival to Queenstown. See http://www.irelandoldnews.com/Cork/1864/JUN.html for an article from the Cork Examiner of 2 June 1864 about this. -dja