Qualla: The Glen, Cork https://qualla.com/the-glen-cork 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/the-glen-cork-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: The Glen, Cork https://qualla.com/the-glen-cork The Glen, Cork: Introduction https://qualla.com/the-glen-cork/ Photo credit Atlantis100, CC BY-SA 3.0. On the night of 11 December 1920, six IRA men ran down through a Cork valley with bloodhounds on their trail. They had just ambushed a British Auxiliary convoy at Dillon's Cross - one Auxiliary dead, twelve wounded, the squad untouched - and the path through Goulding's Glen was the planned escape. The stream that runs along the valley floor was swollen with winter rain. The men crossed the bridge over it, made it into open country at Blackpool, and disappeared. The Auxiliaries' retaliation that night and the next was the Burning of Cork, which destroyed much of the city centre. The Glen is now a regenerated public park with a ski slope and a parkrun. The bloodhounds are gone. The valley remembers.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/z/the-glen-cork-wp/gc1z-the-glen-cork-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full The Glen, Cork: A glacier and a fertilizer factory https://qualla.com/the-glen-cork/ Photo credit Atlantis100, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Glen is what a glacier left behind. During the Late Pleistocene and early Holocene, the River Lee valley was filled with ice, and when the glacier melted the meltwater carved a ravine running east to west on the north side of the river. The Glen River still flows along that l...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/z/the-glen-cork-wp/gc1z-the-glen-cork-a-glacier-and-a-fertilizer-factory.mp3 0:06 2 full The Glen, Cork: The tunnel under your feet https://qualla.com/the-glen-cork/ Photo credit Atlantis100, CC BY-SA 3.0. Walk through the Glen River Park today and you will pass two strange round stone shafts rising out of the ground - one on Arderin Way, the other on Glentrasna Drive. They are ventilation chimneys for the Cork-Mallow railway tunnel, constructed between 1847 and 1855 to bring the r...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/z/the-glen-cork-wp/gc1z-the-glen-cork-the-tunnel-under-your-feet.mp3 0:06 3 full The Glen, Cork: Dillon's Cross, and the burning https://qualla.com/the-glen-cork/ Photo credit Atlantis100, CC BY-SA 3.0. By 11 December 1920 the Irish War of Independence had reached its worst phase in Cork. The day before, martial law had been formally declared. A six-man squad of A Company of the Cork IRA - led by Sean Healy and others - chose to ambush an Auxiliary convoy at Dillon's Cross, half...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/z/the-glen-cork-wp/gc1z-the-glen-cork-dillons-cross-and-the-burning.mp3 0:06 4 full The Glen, Cork: Regeneration and the unexpected ski slope https://qualla.com/the-glen-cork/ Photo credit Atlantis100, CC BY-SA 3.0. The housing estates that fill the south side of the valley today were built in the 1970s - terraced houses with shared walls and free-standing flat blocks - and like many such estates around Irish cities they were under-resourced from the start, lacking the shops, schools and mee...

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