TYONE

View of Tyone Bridge and Mill built 1830

Postcard of Tyone Bridge and O'Hara's Mills

Tyone Bridge arches

Tyone House - Mill Managers House c1800

Knights Crescent, built for the senior management staff of Mogul, whose President and Director happened to be D.W. Knight

Ballygraigue Estate - The Mineworkers purpose built paradise. Much later the flat roofs would be improved and standard peaked roofing applied

report to the Mogul Shareholders

Gasworks

Church St 1837 - 1842 before it became the Railway Bridge. Notice the Workhouse which would later become the site for Nenagh Hospital

Found in the National Library of France (BNF). Nenagh gasworks, situated just over the Railway Bridge provided lighting for the town. Nenagh was one of 6 towns in Ireland that were lit by Acetylene which started in 1901

The Workhouse

Layout of Nenagh Union Workhouse

Tyone Windmill and possible site of a sewage pumping station for the Workhouse

The burned out ruins of the formidable Nenagh Workhouse

Cork Reporter - 19/04/1849

Kings County Chronicle - 16/04/1896

Cork Examiner - 22/07/1911

07/02/1923 - Derry Journal account of the burning of Nenagh Workhouse. British Troops had been stationed there during the War of Independence but it was burned down by Irregulars during the Civil War

The Irish Times - 09/02/1923

Leinster Reporter - 01/03/1924

Nenagh Hospital

The opening of Nenagh Hospital in 1933 by Minister for Local Government, Sean T O'Kelly

The successor to the Workhouse - Nenagh General Hospital - a gem of 1930's architecture

Echoing the gatelodges to be found at the entrance of many large country houses, the twin Modernist gatehouses of Nenagh Hospital designed by Vincent Kelly and built in 1935 once housed families

Various images of Nenagh Hospital

Tyone Church

The Aluminium factory

A range of Pots and Pans manufactured by Castle Brand Aluminium with the various Logo-type interpretations of the Corporate I.D.

11/06/1934  - Local lads off to Wolverhampton for training. It's interesting to note that during the 'Emergency" many skilled staff from Castle Brand went to work as machinists in England as Aluminium, their raw material was difficult to procure in Ireland

Stopper from a Hot Water Bottle  - (David McGee)

The Trainees's - 07/06/1934 - Midland Counties Advertiser

Chrome plating at the factory in the 1930's

The Aluminium factory in the 1960's

Castle Brand Aluminium Factory 1974

The Castle Brand personnel that kept the factory going. We grew up listening to the wailing sound of the siren that echoed through the town, marking the beginning or end of a shift and the mad dash of bicycles up or down Barrack St as workers went home for their lunch.

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