[3] The line linked the small harbour and village at Schull (in Irish: Scoil Mhuire) with the town of Skibbereen (An Sciobairín).

[4] (A similar reversing operation is still required at Killarney railway station on Iarnród Éireann's line from Mallow to Tralee).

[citation needed] Following some remedial work and a subsequent inspection, the line opened in September with a restricted speed limit of only 15 miles per hour.

[citation needed] Following further losses, in 1892 the Grand Jury of County Cork appointed a committee of management to run the line.

[citation needed] In 1893 a short extension to Schull Pier was built, qualifying for a grant as it was an existing railway, the justification being fish traffic.

[1] Owing to a shortage of coal during World War II (known as The Emergency in neutral Ireland), services had to be suspended between April 1944 and December 1945.