Horse head way out in front as new era for area unfolds

Tommy Barker on a development that’s giving a harbour town a boost

WELCOME back to the past. The 1800s was a glory age for Cork harbour’s house builders, with villas, Georgian and Victorian mansions and terraces of note built to make the most of views, setting and harbour amenity.

Back then trains plied their way from Cork city outwards to towns and villages, with Passage West’s rail line opened in 1850 by Lady Deane, wife of one of the architects (Woodward and Deane) of Horse Head House which looked out on the last embankment stretch of rail line leading around the river bend into Passage West.