Location of the first trading outlet of Mitchelstown Co-operative Agricultural Society, formed in 1919. By the mid 1960s it had become the largest multi purpose Co-op in Ireland and included Mitchelstown Creameries, Galtee Foods and Galtee A.I.
The Statue of John Mandeville in New Square made by the Parlanti Foundry of London who also made the Canon Sheehan Statue in Doneraile. Erected in 1906. John Mandeville was a patriot and leader of the land league war in the 1880s who died in Tullamore gaol as a result of his campaign.
Recorded by Fidelma Mullane. This is a Marian Year Grotto built in 1954 on land donated by the Kenny family, Stoneville, a previously Protestant family that converted to Catholicism.
Visited by Fidelma Mullane the 2-storey dwelling (with turret) on the right at the top of the hill served as a Secondary School between 1945 and 1954 when the school was moved to the local Protestant Church – Christ Trinity. A man known as “Fire and Lights’ once lived in the house that is now o
The Island Road lime kiln appears on the First Ed. OS. 1842 map and was, probably, built by the Alworths for themselves and their tenants. The existing brick arch is a recent intervention. The original arch had been removed, probably stolen.
Recorded by Fidelma Mullane in 2013 this is a split-level with basement, flat-roof structure with door from basement on to the field to rear. Raymond O’Sullivan considers that the shop was probably built circa 1950 and he recalled delivering bread there over 60 years ago.
Nora Herlihy was a founder member of the Irish League of Credit Unions. She was born in Ballydesmond on the Cork – Kerry border in the year 1910 and was one of a family of 12 children.
