Bishop to visit parishes impacted by notorious Bandon Valley massacre
The Church of Ireland Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, The Right Reverend Dr Paul Colton will make a number of pastoral visits to the Bandon Valley region to mark the murders of 14 people in 1922. Ā Picture: Jim Coughlan
The Bishop of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross will mark the centenaries of a notorious spate of sectarian killings in West Cork with a series of pastoral visits to the region.
Church of Ireland Bishop Dr Paul Colton said he hopes to ensure that the so-called Bandon Valley massacre of April 1922, when 13 men, all Protestant, were gunned down by unidentified gunmen in just a few days, are āappropriately rememberedā in the most affected parishes in the context of this Decade of Centenaries.
