Accommodation ballincollig

Ballincollig is now a rapidly growing satellite town of Cork City. It had, during the last century, an enormous gunpowder factory known as Powdermills, sited beside the River Lee. This has now been turned into a recreation area, and you can walk through the various old buildings and see the canals which worked the grinding wells and carried materials from one place to another. The Irish Army is still in residence at the old Ballincollig Cavalry barracks. To the immediate south is the private ruin of Ballincollig Castle, set up a knob of rock. It belonged to the Barretts and dates from the time of Edward III.