Subject: Ballincollig Royal Gunpowder Mills Visitor Centre Open
Description: An RTÉ News report broadcast on 1 August 1993. The reporter is Tom MacSweeney.
The Royal Gunpowder Mills at Ballincollig on the south bank of the River Lee in Cork have been restored and now are open to visitors.
From 1794 to 1903, black gunpowder was produced at the Royal Gunpowder Mills in Ballincollig, and shipped from there to all parts of the British Empire. At its peak, the mills produced 16,000 barrels of gunpowder per year and employed 500 people. A demand for more modern types of ammunition at the start of the 20th century forced the mills to close, and it lay abandoned.
