Passage West

Passage west is a port city in County Cork, Ireland, located on the west bank of Cork Harbor, some 10 km south east of Cork metropolis. The city has many services, services and social outlets. Passage West was distinctive a conservation region in the 2003 Cork County Development Plan. The homes in the city centre are particularly past due 18th and early 19th century, even as the structure of close by Glenbrook and Monks town is especially from the later Victorian duration.

In 1690, at the time of the touchdown of the Duke of Marlborough together with his army to put siege to Cork, Passage changed into defined as an insignificant fishing village. Its development from a difficult to understand hamlet to a city may be basically attributed to its deep safe anchorage. The development of Cork's industrial alternate became a critical gain to Passage. Owing to the vanity of the channel above the metropolis, vessels of over 150 heaps have been unable to proceed to Cork, and were pressured to discharge their cargoes right here. These were both unloaded onto lighters and brought up the river to Cork or put ashore and taken to the metropolis in carts or on horseback.