Waltz into your own apartments on site of former Orchid Ballroom

THOSE who danced in the Orchid Ballroom of the former Devonshire Hotel in Bandon might now end up waltzing around their own apartment on the spot.

West Cork builders Brady Construction are starting a €5 million development of 13 apartment and eight duplexes on the site of the old Devonshire Hotel at Kilbrogan hill.

Daniel O’Connell addressed large meeting from this hotel in the 1840s, and almost 100 years later General Eoin O’Duffy also addressed a meeting from here, this time of the Blueshirts.