2. The National Brass Band used these premises 12. PEARL BARLEY & FLOUR MILL from 1887 to the 1920’s. Previous owners included the Across the road from Hunt’s Lane, Lottys, Cahalanes, Crowes, Canavans. The present owner near the pedestrian entrance to is John O’Mahony. Hazelwood, are the remains of a 3. wall, site of the first pearl barley 1. 6. Community Centre mill in Ireland, known as d’Arcy’s 1. Riverstown Cross The Community Centre Pearl Barley & Flour Mill. Other Formerly known as Lycee's Cross. building was formerly a names associated with this mill National School, built in were O’Reilly, Smith and Thorley. 2. Brennan’s shop 1891 on land purchased owned by the family of the late “Micka” Brennan from Mr. James Meade. 13. st. Joseph’s Church (one of our hurling greats), was located here. In the centre of the In 1836 land was purchased from Anthony Morgan, building was a teacher’s Bridestown, by the Rev. John Falvey, P.P. to build 3. R.I.C. Barracks residence. This school St. Joseph’s Church as a Chapel-of-Ease for St. Michael’s The traffic lights (where the old milestone is located) is closed in 1979 when St. Joseph’s National School opened. Church, Upper Glanmire. An inscription in Latin over the the site of an R.I.C. Barracks which closed in 1920. The entrance door is translated as follows - To God the best and South Irish Horse regiment also occupied the Barracks. 7. village Shops greatest, to whose honour and glory this Church has been built To the rear was d'Arcy's Post Office and Kickham's Across the road from the Community Centre in the by a devout and faithful people in the Year of Our Lord 1837. 1930’s and 1940’s were the shops of “Tiny” Riordan, Butcher’s Shop. The six stained-glass windows in St. Joseph’s Miss Judge, and Horgan's Butchers. The local Church depict the following:- 4. old Courthouse district nurse and a harness maker lived nearby. 1. St. Joseph & The Child Jesus Across the road is the “Old Courthouse”. This building 2. The Agony in the Garden of was originally a National School, built in 1833. Local 8. School Terrace Gethsemane children who worked in the mills were obliged to School Terrace remains somewhat unchanged. 3. The Sacred Heart & St. Margaret attend school here for a number of hours each week. During the 1930’s and 1940’s Byrne’s shop Mary Alocoque Over the years it was a centre for lace-making, a traded here. 4. The Annunciation reading room, a dance centre and a courthouse. 5. The Transfiguration Meetings of the Riverstown Area Community 9. springmount House 6. The Sacred Heart Association were held here until the Community a Garda Barracks in the 1920’s and later the Centre opened in 1984. The building was then home of Mr. J. A. Beckett, who was Principal of St. Joseph’s Church also houses a used as a Riverstown N.S. and later New Inn N.S. He was an All- sculpture of “The Transfiguration of 4. youth centre. Ireland football medal winner for in 1911. His son, Our Lord” by John Hogan, who was born Derry, also won All-Ireland medals in hurling and in Tallow, Co. Waterford in 1800. Other works football in 1942 and 1945 respectively. by Hogan are “The Dead Christ” located in 5. St. Finbarr’s (South) Chapel and “The Weeping Angel” in 10. springmount Tannery St. Joseph’s Cemetery, Ballyphehane. where leather was produced by the processing of animal hides. Statues of angels in two alcoves adorned the gable wall of what was formerly 5. the riverstown inn 11. hunt’s Lane the mortuary (built in 1884). In the late 1930’s the adjoining premises, formerly is a section of the old road from Brooklodge to Forge Neenan’s Public House, (now The Riverstown Inn) Cross in Rathcooney. boasted a Clock Golf Club with local membership.

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Army uniforms (as used by the American Army) for Irish GREAT 14. the pike and sallybrook Glashabo ISLAND soldiers going to the Congo. Glansillagh Mill was DOUGLAS The area called “The Pike” stretched from just beyond destroyed by fire in December 1990. 22 the Church to Glansillagh Mill (see no. 16). Sallybrook CORK stretched from Sallybrook Turnpike (see no.15) to HARBOUR 17. o’Keeffe’s shop Kearney’s Cross. In his book “Famine in West Cork” 21 WHITEGATE Also in Sallybrook in the 1940’s was O’Keeffe’s Shop O Fr.P.Hickey states that “in 1841 the village of 20 T owned by two sisters. One was a music teacher who later ROCHES POINT Sallybrook contained 76 houses, but in 1851 it did not 19 became the Church organist. contain even 20, and so was included in the townland of Knocknahorgan on which it stood”. The houses 18. The Brook Inn 18 were built by Lord . was a tied house of In the 1930’s and 1940’s The Pike village was home to Beamish and Crawford a timber merchant who supplied much-needed Ltd., built c.1825.

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Glanmire Area Community Association 2003. Association Community Area Glanmire

Presented by The Heritage Society of Society Heritage The by Presented

• Punch’s Mill Punch’s •

• St. Patrick’s Flour / Timber Mills Timber / Flour Patrick’s St. •

• Springmount Tannery Springmount •

• Riverstown Pearl Barley / Flour Mills Flour / Barley Pearl Riverstown •

“Silverspring Starch” was awarded gold medals in in medals gold awarded was Starch” “Silverspring

production of starch continued until the late 1920’s. 1920’s. late the until continued starch of production • Glansillagh Mill Glansillagh •

crystal forms. After Denny Lane’s death in 1895 the the 1895 in death Lane’s Denny After forms. crystal

• Sallybrook Woollen Mill Woollen Sallybrook •

manufactured rice starch in both granulated and and granulated both in starch rice manufactured

• Silversprings Starch Mill Starch Silversprings • in 1883 from Thos. Lyons & Company and and Company & Lyons Thos. from 1883 in

mill. Mr. Denny Lane purchased this vacated property property vacated this purchased Lane Denny Mr. mill.

Kearney’s Cross and Dunkettle since the 1700’s : 1700’s the since Dunkettle and Cross Kearney’s

c.12m high. Originally, this mill was a cloth bleaching bleaching cloth a was mill this Originally, high. c.12m

Some of the industries on the Glashaboy between between Glashaboy the on industries the of Some

tunnel leads uphill to the stone-built chimney which is is which chimney stone-built the to uphill leads tunnel

“Sallybrook Woollen Mill” Woollen “Sallybrook

Silverspring Starch Works. An underground brick brick underground An Works. Starch Silverspring

Belfast of the South”. South”. the of Belfast

) one can see the chimney of Knocknahorgan Knocknahorgan of chimney the see can one ) Cross

river in , and Glanmire was known as “The “The as known was Glanmire and Cork, County in river

now known as Sarsfield Court Court Sarsfield as known now ( Cross Kearney’s From

industrialised most the was Glashaboy the time that

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At century. 19th the of years latter the in decrease to

Lee at Dunkettle. The number of mills in Ireland began began Ireland in mills of number The Dunkettle. at Lee

Oaks, and later Sherrards who sold farm machinery. farm sold who Sherrards later and Oaks,

meanders along this route on its way to join the River River the join to way its on route this along meanders

owners of the mill were the agricultural firm of Four Four of firm agricultural the were mill the of owners

Hill, Bottle in rises which River, Glashaboy The

years it produced grey blankets for the Army. Other Other Army. the for blankets grey produced it years

Ireland of blankets, rugs and tweeds. During the war war the During tweeds. and rugs blankets, of Ireland

of Parliament na mBan. na Parliament of For a time the mill was the largest manufacturer in in manufacturer largest the was mill the time a For

Carragán Mór in Knocknahorgan was the meeting place place meeting the was Knocknahorgan in Mór Carragán including a water-wheel costing four hundred pounds. pounds. hundred four costing water-wheel a including

writings of Fr. Domhnall O’Colmáin, P.P. , Glounthaune, P.P. O’Colmáin, Domhnall Fr. of writings mills in . They installed up-to-date machinery machinery up-to-date installed They Dripsey. in mills

also show a standing stone in this area. According to the the to According area. this in stone standing a show also who had tweed tweed had who

where people enjoyed walks through the woods. Maps Maps woods. the through walks enjoyed people where O’Shaughnessy’s O’Shaughnessy’s

popular place, especially on Sundays in days gone by, by, gone days in Sundays on especially place, popular later taken over by by over taken later

Wood, also known as “Knocka” or “Knocker”. This was a a was This “Knocker”. or “Knocka” as known also Wood, Company. It was was It Company.

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involved with the distillery which operated in in operated which distillery the with involved Formerly a paper paper a Formerly

Araglin” and “Carrigdhoun”. His family were also also were family His “Carrigdhoun”. and Araglin” oollen Mill Mill oollen W ook ybr all S 23.

many songs, the most well-known being “The Rose of of Rose “The being well-known most the songs, many

cases were also manufactured here. Denny Lane wrote wrote Lane Denny here. manufactured also were cases Sallybrook Industrial Estate. Estate. Industrial Sallybrook

was the main product, packing boxes and heavier transit transit heavier and boxes packing product, main the was Tadgh Crowley’s land to the roadside across from the the from across roadside the to land Crowley’s Tadgh

1884 at the Crystal Palace Exhibition. Although starch starch Although Exhibition. Palace Crystal the at 1884 A stream, known as Law’s Well, flowed down through through down flowed Well, Law’s as known stream, A

ell W aw's l 22. 1882 at the Exhibition of Irish Art & Manufacture, and in in and Manufacture, & Art Irish of Exhibition the at 1882

Researched by The Heritage Society of Glanmire Area Community Association with acknowledgement to many local people for their contributions.

See also The Glashaboy Walk (2002) - the first Historical Walk presente by The Heritage Society of Glanmire Area Community Association

WAY TO GO THE SONG OF THE GLASHABOY The Sallybrook Walk (Slí Bhruach an tSailí) is Dear friend, I beg, just stretch a leg and travel down with me approximately 1.6 kms. long. It starts at Riverstown The merry twinkling waters of the pleasant Glashabwee Cross and heads north. Pass the Community Centre By Ballincrossig's bowers and by Coole so sweet and free, on the left and Hazelwood on the right, pass St. No hindrance to beset our course going sailing to the sea. Joseph’s Church, proceed through the village, pass The Brook Inn, Grandon Car Sales and Sallybrook I'm mindful of the heavy work that often I have done Business Park to Kearney’s Cross. The turning of the mill wheels for Porteous and for Dunne, But just around the corner then I'd have my spot of fun, AIM A-dancing in the millpond or basking in the sun. To promote and preserve the natural, cultural, social, My goddam route, to tell the truth, was full of little mills, and economic history and heritage of the area, and to To turn all their heavy wheels would tire you to the gills, inspire in all a sense of identity, continuity and pride But young I was, and spry and gay, could savour all the thrills of belonging. Of dashing through the sluices and chasing over-spills.

What cheery lads and lasses I've met throughout the years. Thanks to the following for their support: The tales of them I'd tell you would dim your eyes with tears. Some preached their God in foreign lands, some fell for faith and fame, Yet rich or poor, or living still, they loved me all the same.

The Brook Inn The Riverstown Inn And many were the millers too, I've seen to come and go Who worked for Haughton or for Craig, or Lane down below.

Each slit me up in pieces for to make his engines go, Every effort has been taken to ensure accuracy in the compilation of this Walk. Each noted one has since passed on - and only I still flow. However any errors or omissions, if brought to our attention, will be amended in future publications. Grandon Car Sales ANON No access to private property