Book  (Mar 1994)  Page(s) 40.  Includes photo(s).

Book  (Sep 1993)  Page(s) 67.  Includes photo(s).
 
Bantry Bay Large-flowered Climber. Sam McGredy 1967... bright rose-pink... named for the famed Irish beauty spot, Bantry Bay. 'New Dawn' x 'Korona'

Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 40.  
 
Bantry Bay® Large-flowered Climber, medium pink, 1967, 'New Dawn' x 'Korona'; McGredy, S. IV. Description.

Book  (Feb 1993)  Page(s) 152.  Includes photo(s).
 
Bantry Bay Cluster-flowered climber. Parentage: 'New Dawn' x 'Korona'. Northern Ireland 1967. Description and cultivation... small clusters of large, semi-double, informal, sweetly scented blooms of rich pink, gently blending to an innocent white eye with golden stamens...

Book  (1993)  Page(s) 67.  Includes photo(s).

Book  (1993)  Page(s) 125.  Includes photo(s).
 
'Bantry Bay'. One of the best climbing Floribundas. Raised by McGredy in Northern Ireland, launched 1967. ('New Dawn' x 'Korona'). Repeat flowering. height to 300cm (10 ft). Good scent. Photographed on the walls at Hampton Court Palace, England.

Book  (1990)  Page(s) 41.  
 
Alan Sinclair. Climbing Roses for Picking. ‘Bantry Bay’, 1967. Another good rose from Sam McGredy and like ‘Dublin Bay’, it picks well. A strong pink that opens to reveal its golden stamens. Flowers all summer through.

Book  (1989)  Includes photo(s).
 
p16. Photo. ‘Bantry Bay’.

p22. Conrad Harneiss, Franklin. ‘Westerland and ‘Bantry Bay’ are suitable for archways and covering large areas, both being of sprawling habit…. while the latter is light rose pink with glossy, light green foliage. Clusters of Floribunda-type, richly scented flowers in each case.

p54 Don Sheppard. Canterbury. My first experience of a climber grown up a tree was in Mrs. Kay Lamb’s garden in Christchurch. There, in the middle of her front lawn, not far from the front fence, the pink repeat flowering ‘Bantry Bay’ has been wound around the tall, bare trunk of a palm, to reach a height of 3 to 4 metres. In flush it is a marvellous spectacle – one long ribbon of pink. It has been there many years now and shows no sign of deteriorating. The roots were planted a little distance from the palm, then, as the basals came, they were very carefully wound around the trunk in an upward spiral and tied in with a good cord. The original ‘frame’ is seldom pruned out. Usually only the laterals are cut back. Nice long shoots, or basals, are carefully trained and wound round and upwards each year as they appear. A lot of awkward work, you might say. Well, yes, but really no more than any climber entails and the spectacle in November through to April makes the job completely worthwhile.

Book  (1988)  Page(s) 147.  Includes photo(s).
 
Bantry Bay Climbing Floribunda. Description.

Book  (1986)  Page(s) 36.  
 
Back in 1910 the American, Van Fleet, introduced a soft pink wichuriana hybrid called ‘Dr. W. van Fleet’. This subsequently produced a repeat-blooming sport named ‘New Dawn’ – still one of the great roses of all time. It became a successful mother in my breeding programme, giving me in 1967 ’Bantry Bay’ - a much deeper pink, free-flowering, vigorous and healthy.