Qualla: Ringaskiddy https://qualla.com/ringaskiddy 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/4/n/ringaskiddy-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Ringaskiddy https://qualla.com/ringaskiddy Ringaskiddy: Introduction https://qualla.com/ringaskiddy/ Photo credit Flickr member Charlie cravero, CC BY 2.0. If you took every Viagra pill manufactured for the global market in any given year and traced them backward through the supply chain, almost all of them would lead to a single sprawling Pfizer plant on the western shore of Cork Harbour. Ringaskiddy is the village next to that plant. It is also home to several other pharmaceutical multinationals - Centocor, GlaxoSmithKline, Hovione, Novartis, Recordati - and to the only port in Ireland where Tesla, BMW and Toyota land their new cars from Europe. A century ago it was a fishing village of stone cottages. Today more than 3,800 people work in chemistry plants here, and ferries leave twice a week for Roscoff in France. The transformation is one of the cleanest case studies of small-town industrial reinvention in modern Ireland.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/n/ringaskiddy-wp/gc4n-ringaskiddy-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Ringaskiddy: A Castle and a Tower https://qualla.com/ringaskiddy/ Photo credit The Speckled Bird, CC BY-SA 4.0. The old village still holds traces of the centuries before the chemists arrived. Barnahely Castle - later known as Warren's Castle - sits in ruins near Ringaskiddy. The site was originally an Anglo-Norman fortification; a new castle was built here in the 15th or 16th century. In ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/n/ringaskiddy-wp/gc4n-ringaskiddy-a-castle-and-a-tower.mp3 0:06 2 full Ringaskiddy: From Fish to Pharma https://qualla.com/ringaskiddy/ Photo credit Klabauter2, CC BY-SA 3.0. Through the 19th and early 20th centuries, Ringaskiddy was a fishing village, supplying Cork city 15 km up the harbour with whatever the boats brought in. The transformation began after Ireland's 1958 economic shift toward foreign direct investment - cheap land, low corporate tax...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/n/ringaskiddy-wp/gc4n-ringaskiddy-from-fish-to-pharma.mp3 0:06 3 full Ringaskiddy: The Port and the Pier https://qualla.com/ringaskiddy/ Photo credit derek menzies, CC BY-SA 2.0. Ringaskiddy is also a working port. The Port of Cork operates passenger and freight facilities here - the Brittany Ferries service to Roscoff in France runs two sailings a week, and 34,000 trade vehicles were imported through Cork in 2017, most of them across this quayside. A sec...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/n/ringaskiddy-wp/gc4n-ringaskiddy-the-port-and-the-pier.mp3 0:06 4 full Ringaskiddy: The Incinerator Fight https://qualla.com/ringaskiddy/ Photo credit DeFacto, CC BY-SA 4.0. For more than a decade Ringaskiddy was the centre of one of Ireland's longest planning disputes. In 2011 An Bord Pleanala - the national planning appeals body - rejected an application by Indaver Ireland to build a domestic waste incinerator near the village. The company tried ag...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/n/ringaskiddy-wp/gc4n-ringaskiddy-the-incinerator-fight.mp3 0:06 5 full Ringaskiddy: The Marine Campus https://qualla.com/ringaskiddy/ Photo credit Lewis Glucksman Gallery, CC BY-SA 4.0. Just east of the village sits the National Maritime College of Ireland - the State's only dedicated maritime college, founded in 2004 on former Department of Defence land next to the Haulbowline naval base. The campus also hosts the Beaufort Maritime and Energy Research Laborator...

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