Old 'Sunbeam' textiles workers' cottages in Cork city set for new building fabric

A site tucked away off the Red Forge Road, by the Blackpool Shopping Centre complex is up for sale

Millfield Cottages Blackpool Cork  are  for sale as a lot of 18 houses to be knocked and replaced with 18 new-builds

A CHANCE to knock and rebuild 18 terraced homes once associated with workers in the Sunbeam Wolsey textile plant which had roots going back to the 19th century, has cropped up in Cork City’s Blackpool suburb.

Listed for sale is a site tucked away off the Red Forge Road, by the Blackpool Shopping Centre complex, and close to the last remaining buildings of the Sunbeam plant, where work finally wound up in 1995.