Cork's Rochestown on track for new greenway link, and old rail station cafe-restaurant conversion

Tommy Barker says public consultation plans have been released for an exciting new greenway and chi-chi cafe along Rochestown's harbour amenity walks

Rochestown Road rail station/cafe-restaurant site, between Harty's Quay and Hop Island in Cork.

PLANS for a new Cork greenway link, and a chi-chi cafe restaurant venue similar to that at Blackrock Observatory, are coming down the track at Cork's Rochestown, in parallel and unrelated developments by Cork City Council, and by a private developer.

Public consultation plans have just recently been released by the council for options to link and upgrade the super-successful Mahon/Blackrock and Rochestown-Passage West amenity cycle and walk routes. They pivot around a key stretch on the Rochestown Road, and the former compact train station and ticket office by the Rochestown Inn, which ceased operations in 1932.