Glanmire Area Community Association-Old Schoolhouse Riverstown Glanmire Co. Cork Ireland.

Glanmire Area Community Association

GLANMIRE COMMUNITY FUND

GLANMIRE COMMUNITY FUND (REWARD SCHEME) Launched 1st Feb '13

The Glanmire Area Community Association and local businesses have come together to bring a unique project to Glanmire. This will benefit local businesses, the community and you the consumer.

By collecting reward vouchers from participating businesses you not only get a chance to enter a free monthly competition but you also ensure a donation is made to the local community association. To help support groups such as Tidy Towns, Coder Dojo, Sports Pitches and many more.

PARTICIPATING BUSINESSES
The following businesses in the Glanmire Area are participating in this fantastic new rewards scheme

CARRYOUT Off-Licence @ Bar BK2, Crestfield Shopping Centre
CREAM CAFE, Crestfield Shopping Centre
McCARTHYS SPORTSWORLD (over Supervalu), Crestfield Shopping Centre
RIVERSTOWN CABS, Crestfield Shopping Centre
GLANMIRE MECHANICAL REPAIRS, Glanmire Business Park, Glanmire
MICHEAL O'CONNOR MOTOR FACTORS, Glanmire Business Park, Glanmire
BALLYCOTTON SEAFOODS, Hazelwood Shopping Centre
CAFE BEVA, Hazelwood Shopping Centre
PHARMACY FIRST PLUS, Hazelwood Shopping Centre
PHARMACY FIRST PLUS, Riverstown Village
VIBRANCE HAIR, Riverstown Village

For more details on how to register vouchers Click Here

ALL ABOUT US

By 1980 there was a need for collective voluntary action in the Glanmire area:

To press for much needed services and facilities in the area.

To unify the various strands of the Community by integrating old and new.

This collective voluntary action was to emerge in a Community Council and then in February 1990, a Limited Company called the Glanmire Area Community Association or the GACA in short, was formed. Its main objective is to assist all local Voluntary Organisations.

Located in the old schoolhouse at Riverstown Cross, the Community Centre is open from 9am - 10pm and the Office is attended from 9.30am - 1.30pm Monday to Friday and on request at weekends.

Sub-Committees - New members always welcome

Coder DOJO ~ Community Games ~ Community Garden ~ Environment ~ Heritage ~
Indoor Bowling ~ Seniors Citizens ~ Sports & Community Playing Pitches ~ Tidy Towns ~ The Summer Youth Work Scheme

Some of other activities at the G.A.C.A. Centre

Playschool & Creche (daily), Tuesday Club for Seniors
AA, Art, Boxing, Computers, Dancing, Karate, Pilates, Tae-Kwon-do, Weighwatchers, Yoga

Back to top

The Glanmire Region
The Glanmire region is situated in a valley approximately five miles east of Cork City.
It is made up of four villages; Brooklodge, Glanmire, Riverstown and Sallybrook and their surrounding townlands.

The Glashaboy and Butlerstown rivers flow through the valley, joining at Riverstown and empties into the estuary of the river Lee at Dunkettle.

Glanmire is probably the most picturesque of the four villages. It is situated on the estuary of the river Glashaboy and surrounded by beautiful woodlands. Its wooded beauty has been celebrated in a song aptly named “The Groves of Glanmire”. William Makepeace Thackery on a journey around Ireland in 1842, was captured by the loveliness of Glanmire. He wrote;

"We arrived at the beautiful wooded village of Glanmire with its mills and steeples and
streams and neat schoolhouses and pleasant country residences"

Back to top

Glanmire Area Community Association, Old Schoolhouse, Riverstown, Glanmire, Co. Cork, Ireland. Phone : +353 (0)21 482 1333 Fax: +353 (0)21 482 1333 E-mail: gacacork@gmail.com

Privacy Statement | Sitemap