Clondulane

Clondulane Irish: Cluain Dalláin
County Cork
Clondulane village green
Location
Grid reference:	W847989
Location:	52°8’33"N, 8°13’24"W
Data
Population:	417  (2016)
Local Government
Dáil constituency:	Cork East

Clondulane is a village in the north of County Cork, three and a half miles east of Fermoy, just off the main Fermoy to Dungarvan road. This village was originally built as a camp for the workers of a Cork Milling Company grain mill, and though the mill is gone, the village remains, now with a population of over 400.

There are three large houses of note in the village: Clondulane, Glandulane, and Careysville Houses, the latter owned by the Duke of Devonshire and used as a lodging house during the salmon season. Along with several housing estates and many stand-alone dwellings, there is a school, a community centre, a public house, playing fields, a park, a disused railway station, a factory, a Protestant school, a Protestant church and its graveyard.

History

In around 1800, Stephen Moore, 2nd Earl of Mount Cashell, built a substantial corn mill complex in Clondulane, known variously as the Clondulane Mill or the Glandalane Mills. To power it, he also built a weir at Poulshane on the River Blackwater, from which ran the mill race. The mill was originally powered by a large water wheel, nd came to be producing seven sacks of flour an hour. With the upgrade to roller machinery, it needed more power and a turbine was installed. The mill was closed in the 1950s and now little remains.

Clondulane railway station opened on 27 September 1872, and closed on 27 March 1967. It was located on the now dismantled Waterford to Mallow line and served by the Rosslare to Cork boat train.

References

• Clondulane Flour Mill: Niall C.E.J. O’Brien