Fairy Hill House is situated half way down the Coleville road on the riverside. It is in fact two houses. The larger and older structure was original named Springfield House. It is clearly identified in both the first and second edition of the ordnance survey maps of Ireland. This puts its date of construction at...Read More

Around Our Town Ep. 34 – The Coleville Road, Clonmel (Part 9) – Edward Burke, Mayor of Clonmel of Greyfort Greyfort on the south side of Coleville Road could be  considered more modest than some of its near neighbours. Built in the first half of the nineteenth century the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage describe...Read More

Around Our Town Ep. 33 – The Coleville Road, Clonmel (Part 8) – Glenam House, Strangman & Grubb Glenam House situated on the south side of the Coleville is intriguing for a number of reasons. Like many of the homes on the road it is steeped in the heritage of the Quaker community in Clonmel....Read More

Around Our Town Ep. 32 – The Coleville Road, Clonmel (Part 7) – Brookdale This week we continue our stroll down the Coleville Road to Brookdale. Like Glenview next door Brookdale was built on land owned by the prominent 19th century Quaker and miller Thomas Hughes. Pinning down a  precise date of construction for Brookdale...Read More

Around Our Town Ep. 31 – The Coleville Road, Clonmel (Part 6) – Glenview The evidence of Clonmel’s industrial past is clearly visible today. The apartment complex on Little Island known today as Hughes Mills was once a thriving flour mill operated by the Hughes Family. Thomas Hughes (d1775) came to Clonmel from the midlands...Read More

Around Our Town Ep. 30 – The Coleville Road, Clonmel (Part 5) – Roseville Roseville is the second Quaker mansion on the Coleville Road that was designed by the architect William Tinsley. Like its near neighbour Ashbourne it is in the Gothic revival fashion which was popular in the early to mid nineteenth century. Similarly...Read More

Around Our Town Ep. 29 – The Coleville Road, Clonmel (Part 4) – Ashbourne At the junction where the Coleville Road and the Mountain Road intersect are two old Quaker homes which have much in common. Ashbourne and Roseville were both designed by the much celebrated Clonmel born architect William Tinsley. Both can be described...Read More

Around Our Town Ep. 28 – The Coleville Road, Clonmel (Part 3) – Merlin ‘Merlin’ is one of the most prominent Quaker homes built on the Coleville Road (or Fairy Hill as the area was know in the 19th century). A newspaper report in the Nationalist dated 18/03/1950 references valuation records for newly built houses...Read More

Around Our Town Ep. 27 – The Coleville Road, Clonmel (Part 2) – Minella The Malcolmson’s were among the most successful Irish Quaker Industrialists of the 18th/19th centuries. They had extensive business interests across the south east of Ireland most notably in Portlaw, Co Waterford and Clonmel. By the middle of the 1800s several branches...Read More

Around Our Town Ep. 26 – The Coleville Road, Clonmel (Part 1) The Coleville Road in Clonmel runs from the southern end of the Gashouse Bridge eastwards, parallel with the Suir for about a mile, where it meets the county boundary with Waterford. The origins of its name are difficult to  ascertain definitively however the...Read More