Qualla: Knocknaheeny https://qualla.com/knocknaheeny en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/z/knocknaheeny-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Knocknaheeny https://qualla.com/knocknaheeny Knocknaheeny: Introduction https://qualla.com/knocknaheeny/ Photo credit Ceoil (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. Knocknaheeny is two stories told at the same time on the same hill. One is a council housing estate of terraced redbrick streets, built quickly in the 1970s to rehouse families from Cork's older neighbourhoods, never given the shops or community centres it needed, allowed to wear out over forty years. The other is the European headquarters of Apple Inc., employing about 5,000 people on the same hilltop. Both communities are tied together by a single proposed road, by complicated land deals, and by the awkward modern question of what happens when one of the world's wealthiest companies wants to expand through a working-class neighbourhood that has been waiting most of its life for its own regeneration.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/z/knocknaheeny-wp/gc1z-knocknaheeny-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Knocknaheeny: Hill of Friday https://qualla.com/knocknaheeny/ Photo credit Ceoil (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. Cnoc na hAoine means Hill of Friday. Some say the name refers to Good Friday and the hill on which Christ was crucified - a Christian gloss layered onto an older Gaelic placename. Others read aoine as rushes, the marsh plant, and translate the hill more literally. Either way, the...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/z/knocknaheeny-wp/gc1z-knocknaheeny-hill-of-friday.mp3 0:06 2 full Knocknaheeny: The estates https://qualla.com/knocknaheeny/ Photo credit Ceoil (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. Cork Corporation began building on the hill in the early 1970s, rehousing families from older parts of the city: Churchfield, Farranree, Gurranabraher. Terraced council houses went up at speed; St. Mary's on the Hill primary school followed, granted extensions to handle classroom...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/z/knocknaheeny-wp/gc1z-knocknaheeny-the-estates.mp3 0:06 3 full Knocknaheeny: Apple, the road, and the regeneration https://qualla.com/knocknaheeny/ Photo credit Ceoil (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. Apple opened in Cork in 1980 - one of the earliest American tech investments in Ireland - and the European headquarters has been on the Hollyhill side of Knocknaheeny ever since. Through expansions over four decades it has grown into a 5,000-person operation. In the early 21st ce...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/z/knocknaheeny-wp/gc1z-knocknaheeny-apple-the-road-and-the-regeneration.mp3 0:06 4 full Knocknaheeny: Who Knocknaheeny is https://qualla.com/knocknaheeny/ Photo credit Ceoil (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. Knocknaheeny has produced more people than most outsiders would guess. The athlete Mark Carroll, Irish 5,000-metre record holder and one of the most accomplished middle-distance runners Ireland has ever produced, came from these streets. So did Denise O'Sullivan, capped over a hu...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/z/knocknaheeny-wp/gc1z-knocknaheeny-who-knocknaheeny-is.mp3 0:06 5 full