New canon for former Ballincollig Gun Store

Set to move from war-mongering and munitions provisioning to worship and prayer is the former Gun Store, a relic of Cork’s Ballincollig Gunpowder Mills.

The 19th century military building housed weapons and explosives, as well as stabling British cavalry horses, is to be converted to a church and parish hub, under the guidance of a pacifist canon.

The limestone-built 14,700sq ft former Gun Store has been bought by the Carrigrohane Union of Parishes.