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.  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 “appropriately remembered” in the most affected parishes in the context of this Decade of Centenaries.