Clondulane
| Clondulane Irish: Cluain Dalláin | |
| County Cork | |
|---|---|
.jpg) 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,[1] 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.[2]
Clondulane railway station opened on 27 September 1872, and closed on 27 March 1967.[3] It was located on the now dismantled Waterford to Mallow line and served by the Rosslare to Cork boat train.[4]
References
- ↑ Nielstrom, N: 'Cork Milling Company' (Falon Publishing, 1992)
- ↑ Glandalane Mills, Fermoy: New Mills Archive
- ↑ "Clondulane station". Railscot – Irish Railways. http://www.railscot.co.uk/Ireland/Irish_railways.pdf. Retrieved 2007-09-17.
- ↑ Eire Trains
- Clondulane Flour Mill: Niall C.E.J. O’Brien