Why “Cuinne an Maistir” (Master’s Corner)?
Build on the birth place of Eamon Ryan. Former Principal of Watergrasshill National School. Eamon was referred to as “The Master”.
A player and coach of his home clubs’ of Glenville and Watergrasshill, Eamonn went on to play with Cork football at both Cork Juniors and Seniors grades. In 1966 at 25, he was a key player on the Cork senior football team that defeated Kerry for the first time since 1957.
The Glenville/Watergrasshill man led the Ladies Rebel footballers to their first All-Ireland title in 2005, and they went on an incredible run which brought them nine more titles over the next 10 seasons.
He was at the helm for all of those successes, and also guided the county to 9 NFL titles in that time.
As Manager of the Cork Ladies Football team, he achieved incredible success and became a national name. From 2004 to 2015, he coached the Cork Ladies Football team to an incredible 10 All Ireland senior championship titles and 6 National League titles.
After leaving the women’s set up at the end of 2015, he was part of the backroom for the men’s football set up between 2015 and 2018.
On 14 January 2021, Cork LGFA announced that he had died. He was 79.
24/02/2022:
Cork County Council brought Mayor Cllr. Gillian Coughlan to the site of the new plaza on Wednesday 23rd February 2022. The Mayor was very impressed with the work carried out and thanked all involved for their time and efforts.
Mayor Coughlan said that “Once again, local volunteers have steered this project from planning to completion, the result is an eye-catching multi-use civic space that enhances an already attractive village centre. Congratulations and well done to all concerned.”
The Community Council will have an official opening later when all works are complete.
Pic Michael Mac Sweeney/Provision
16/11/2021:
Watergrasshill Community Association, in conjunction with Avondhu Blackwater Partnership, carried out a village enhancement design plan for Watergrasshill. As part of this process we engaged the professional services of Cathal O Meara Landscape Architects in Fermoy.
Members of the public, local community and voluntary groups were invited to two public meetings/workshops (November, December 2019) to participate in a collaborative process to create an environmental design plan for Watergrasshill. It was the intention of this plan to identify the needs of the village and capture the intentions of our community for the foreseeable future. This plan was used as a basis for funding applications under various initiatives and has been led by and monitored by our Planning & Development Action Group.
Attached, final draft, of Watergrasshill “Plaza”, located at the top of the village. Work has commenced on this project. This public events space project is expected to take 4-5 weeks to completion.
Of course, Watergrasshill village enhancement will not stop here. A decorative seating area has also been designed and will be completed within the same time frame, located the Fermoy side of the village. We will continue to source funding and over the next few weeks/months/years and the Association will embark on a house to house questionnaire survey within the village looking for information & feedback on a wide range of topics.
Watergrasshill Community Association are working simultaneously on several projects within our village with details to be released soon.
Cork County Council have been an integral part of these projects and we thank them sincerely for all their help in seeing these through to the end. Their guidance greatly appreciated.
06/10/2019:
Watergrasshill Community Association have been working on this for a few weeks, in cooperation with Avondhu Blackwater Partnership, our village environmental design project, where through the appointment of a professional landscape architect, Cathal O Meara Architects, who are based in Fermoy, create a plan for our village. They will engage with our community through at least 2 public workshops, coordinated by the Community Association, identifying needs and opportunities, to establish what we would like our village environs to look like and include. The outcome will be a design & environmental plan for Watergrasshill. This is a fabulous opportunity for us all to have a say in what/how we would like the landscape of our village to look like….This final design should give us opportunities to approach the relevant authorities to move this project forward…
To note, this was a design model only.
We would hope, through a Representative Forum, made up of a representative or 2 from various community stakeholders e.g. – resident associations, Community Association, GAA, soccer, athletics, cycling, scouts, tidy towns, parish assembly, local businesses, indeed the entire Community and local public , that through engagement we can brainstorm together and avail of this unique opportunity.
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