At the River we turn right down the Mill Road along by the mill stream as far as the Mill Island Bridge. From there you can go on to the island itself and where there was a beautiful house known as Mill Island House. The mill wheel is still to be seen there. This wheel, powered by water, drove the mechanism that in turn ground the grain into flour. This mill gave employment to many Fermoy families for generations. The building has been modernised and made home to Bupa Ireland (an international health care organisation).	Mill Wheel
Haymarket	From the mill bridge we go back up to Fitzgerald Place - it was then called The Hay Market. On the right is Elbow Lane and on the left is Market Place. Here the Market House and the Butter Market (now Ted O’Connor’s) were located. The old market house, which was also known as ‘The Shambles’, was in the Fair Green where most of the cattle and sheep were sold in open pens.
You now come up Courthouse Road from the Hospital direction, from which for many years the The Gasworks operated. It supplied gas for street lighting, as well as for home cooking, lighting and heating. Perhaps many of you will remember the old penny and shilling gas meters. You then come up Walkers Row now O’Rahilly Row and up Walkers Hill which became Richmond Hill. Walkers Row and Walkers Hill were so called because Walkers Whisky Brewers had a distillery in this area.	Butter Market
Walker's Hill	Half way up the hill on the left was Bowling Green Street where there were about 35 houses. Alas, today there are none of these houses left. St. Mary’s Crescent, Lynch Terrace, St. Coleman’s Park and, later still Uplands, became the more modern estates of the Town. College Road got its name from the Protestant College, which was situated where The Manor house now stands.
A summary of the 1871 census of the town of Fermoy gives the following data, there were 7,337 inhabitants listed, Roman Catholics made up 5,485 of that number, the remainder being Protestant, Presbyterian, and Methodist, etc. Market day was on Saturdays. The mail arrived at 5am from Mallow by Mail Car (horse drawn) and at 2pm.by train. The mail left Fermoy by train to Mallow at noon and at 7.20pm.by Mail Car. The Town’s Postmaster was David Rice and the Stationmaster was John Coleman.