Cheekpoints Industrial Era

by | Aug 28, 2015 | Uncategorised

Today’s blog is a summary of the recent walk conducted to celebrate Heritage Week 2015 and is a narrative of the afternoon and what we encountered.   Welcome to Cheekpoint and to this years heritage week event, which is hosted by the Cheekpoint Fishing...

Cheekpoints Textile industry of the late 18th C

by | Aug 21, 2015 | Uncategorised

One of the industries that grew up in Cheekpoint in conjunction with the Mail Packet station was textiles.  Nothing now remains, except some brief mentions of the trade and local lore.  It appears that the Cheekpoint venture was part of an initiative in the...

Owen family Cheekpoint 1787-1836

by | Jul 31, 2015 | Uncategorised

We briefly met with the Owen’s last week, when I introduced the forthcoming walk for Heritage Week; Cheekpoint’s Industrial Age.  This week I wanted to take a closer look at the family. The Owen’s came to Cheekpoint in 1787 to run the Mail...

Cheekpoint’s era as an industrial village

by | Jul 24, 2015 | Uncategorised

In 1785 Cornelius Bolton along with other investors bought out the Mail Packet Station, then based at Passage East and moved it upriver to Cheekpoint, Co Waterford.  Around this business, Bolton built a vibrant industrial village.  The man who came to run...