{"id":436,"date":"2025-12-06T13:19:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T13:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/?p=436"},"modified":"2025-12-06T13:21:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T13:21:24","slug":"the-corrib-hosiery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/2025\/12\/06\/the-corrib-hosiery\/","title":{"rendered":"The Corrib Hosiery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Corrib Hosiery was located near the present-day Newtownsmith car park. The managers were Bernard Boylan, Mr Reddington and Nellie Kavanagh from McDonagh\u2019s Terrace, Woodquay. The men also managed the Woollen Mills for a time. It seems that there was a connection between both businesses. The hosiery working hours were from 8.30 am to 6.00 pm with an hour off for lunch. There was no canteen so the staff went home for something to eat. This wasn\u2019t a problem as they all lived close to the hosiery. The hosiery was a clean and spacious place to work. The looms were on the ground floor and the winding area was upstairs. Janie Hackett from Sickeen began working there in 1927 and started on 7s \u2013 6d per week. Her wages were increased to 15s after a short time. The staff had Saturday off work unless a large order for items arrived unexpectedly. If they had to work, it was only a half-day shift.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The staff of the Corrib Hosiery Factory in 1910. There were about fifty people employed there including Mary Ellen Monaghan, Florrie Boylan, Katie Burns, Ellie Higgins, Julia Flaherty, Bridget McDonagh, and Mary Cahill<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The hosiery supplied socks and jumpers to Industrial schools around the county. There was also a local private trade operating for boarding schools. In addition, they also supplied knitwear to places like Kylemore Abbey. The managers were described as good and considerate and allowed the workers to get on with the daily tasks without any interference. If a worker became tired on some of the heavy knitting machines, they were allowed a rest period without being pressurised. The Corrib Hosiery closed in 1934 and the building was taken over by the ESB. Bernard Boylan lived in one of the three houses facing the Dyke Road. They also exported their manufactured items to Scotland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Corrib Hosiery was located near the present-day Newtownsmith car park. The managers were Bernard Boylan, Mr Reddington and Nellie Kavanagh from McDonagh\u2019s Terrace, Woodquay. The men also managed the Woollen Mills for a time. It seems that there was a connection between both businesses. The hosiery working hours were from 8.30 am to 6.00 … Continue reading “The Corrib Hosiery”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,133,139],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-galway","tag-corrib-hosiery","tag-newtownsmith","tag-woolen-mills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":439,"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions\/439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}