Cllr Kieran McCarthy continues his series of summer historical walking tours for July with tours of Tramore Valley Park, City Centre and Sunday’s Well. He will conduct a walk across the area of Tramore Valley Park, formerly the Black Ash, on Saturday afternoon, 13 July. The meeting point is the Halfmoon Lane gate, 1pm. The tour is free with a duration of 90 minutes. There is no booking required.
The Tramore Valley Park tour will explore the development of the area from being a swamp through to being a landfill and then onto being an artificial mound to enable the development of a park. Cllr McCarthy noted:
“Cork’s Tramore Valley Park is an exciting heritage site. What is great is the rich historical archive of documents and maps, which reveal not only historical development of the immediate area, but also the surrounds of the southern suburbs.
“Historically William Petty’s 1655 map of the city and its environs marks the site of Tramore Valley Park as Ballyphehane townland, a reference to the original local environment and the backing up of the Trabeg and Tramore tributary rivers as they enter the Douglas River channel. We are lucky that there are also really interesting perspectives on the area recorded through the ages, which have been great to research. This is a site where the city’s environment has also been a regular topic of debate across local newspapers and in the city’s council political chamber”, concluded Cllr McCarthy.
Kieran’s historical walking tours for July 2025 (all free, 2 hours, no booking required)
-Sunday 13 July 2025, Views from a Park – The Black Ash and Tramore Valley Park historical walking tour; meet at Half Moon Lane gate, 1pm.
-Wednesday 16 July 2025, Cork Through the Ages, An Introduction to the Historical Development of Cork City; meet at the National Monument, Grand Parade, 6.30pm.
-Thursday 17 July 2025, Sunday’s Well historical walking tour; discover the original well and the eighteenth century origins of the suburb, meet at St Vincent’s Bridge, North Mall end, 6.30pm.