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Arcade, Rosscarbery, Co. Cork

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 25 older comments, and then…
• Mike Grimes said:

  Here on Streetview. I walked past it every day to school. Although I never saw any tandems in Ross. www.google.es/maps/@51.5779082,-9.0319684,3a,75y,330.27h,...

• Mike Grimes said:

  Taken from www.rosscarbery.ie/rosscarbery-notes-june-18th-2015/ it would appear that Tom Barry's father ran The Arcade for a while. "Tom Barry likewise came from a long established farming family in Rosscarbery. His father joined the RIC, was stationed in North Cork where he married Margaret O’Donovan from Liscarroll. The family moved to Killorglin Co Kerry where Tom was born on 1st July 1897. His father resigned from the RIC and returned to Rosscarbery to run “The Arcade” as a retail business for about 8 years, they subsequently moved to Bandon and then emigrated to Liverpool. Tom joined the British Army in June 1915 and served in Mesopotamia and Egypt. He returned to Bandon after the War and worked for better treatment of the many ex-servicemen in the area who were now forgotten by the authorities. He became disillusioned by the British authorities and joined the IRA. With his military training and active service he put his experiences to good use and became the most successful and noted Flying Column leader of the War of Independence."

• Niall McAuley said:

  The building is from 1840 per the NIAH

• Niall McAuley said:

  The Allsops Ale sign at left says "Sold by Jeremiah Collins, the Arcade". Jeremiah was 61 in the 1911 census.

• Niall McAuley said:

  The NIAH says the Barrys were here from 1907-1914, (and the census agrees) so this must be before 1908.