Kilbarry ( Irish: Cill Bharra) [1] is a townland in the civil parish of Saint Anne's on the northside of Cork City in Ireland. [2] Located close to the suburb of Blackpool, Kilbarry itself had just 56 residents in 2011. [3] It is primarily zoned for commercial use, and an IDA Ireland business park occupies 190 of the townland's 300 acres. [2] [4] Delaney Rovers GAA also have a pitch at Kilbarry.
Formerly the site of a small rail yard and siding on the Dublin–Cork railway line, [5] Irish Rail applied for planning permission to construct a station at Kilbarry in 2008. [6] As of 2013, funding and planning for a number of proposed stations (including Kilbarry) had been scrapped, [7] and by 2017 it was confirmed that the station's construction had been "permanently" "shelved". [8] [9] The Cork Metropolitan Area Draft Transport Strategy 2040, a public consultation document published by the National Transport Authority in May 2019, included "Blackpool/Kilbarry" as one of several possible train station locations in the area. [10]
Kilbarry [townland] has an area of [..] 309.77 acres
Kilbarry, St. Mary's, Co. Cork [..] 56
Kilbarry Business & Technology Park is a c.77 hectare (c.190 acre) park located in Cork City