Leaving Kilworth Square, walk towards Araglin. Pass the Catholic Church on your left and the old Moorepark Estate on your right (a military encampment during the First World War).

At the end of the 18th century, Mount Cashell selected approximately 900 acres on both sides of the Funschion for a demesne.

A boundary wall, 3.5m (12 ft.) high and 12km (7 miles) long, was erected around the demesne and giant oaks, beech groves, pines of Himalayan Fir and various other ornamental trees were planted.

Pigots Directory 1824, records the fact that the Parish Priest of Kilworth was turned away from Earl Mount Cashell's door.

The 3rd Earl, (1822-1883), educated as Lord Kilworth at the Franciscan College in Rome, was something of a religious bigot. He held prayer meetings for tenants at the Great House on the hill (now the site of Galty piggeries) and as a result the Parish Priest refused them the sacraments. The Church was built in 1802 and is one of the few remaining Catholic Churches of its type in the Country.

Unadorned and of simple barn-type structure, it remains spireless, as bells were forbidden for use in Catholic Churches in those penal days.

Kilworth Roman Catholic Church was built opposite Moore Park's main gate but Mount Cashell, in annoyance, shifted the main gate to where it is today - on the south side approximately 100m from the original gate. At the turn of the century, Mount Cashell needed finance and offered the Park as a training ground for the British Army who occupied it in 1904. The Great House was burned in 1908.

Located in the Chapel Yard, beside the Church, is the old Kilworth National School; opened in 1835 it was the first of its kind. Mount Cashell, proselytiser, refused the site for a school for Roman Catholics.

At the first cross-roads, turn left and proceed over the bridge spanning the River Douglas. Just beyond the bridge, turn left and follow the lovely meandering road for approximately 3km. Keep right at the first fork and exit onto the main road leading to the Mountain Barracks, (the old Cork/Dublin road mentioned in 12), or the road to Ballyporeen/Clogheen.

The area around the main road from Kilworth to the Mountain Barracks , was the stamping ground of Willie Brennan, the famous outlaw (hanged in Clonmel in the early 1800's. One of his pistols ('a brace of loaded pistols he carried night and day') is still in the possession of one local resident.

Continue up this road for 2.5km and turn left at Keane's Crossroads (there is a yellow waymarker, but you will only see the arrow from the north side) and join the Avondhu Way.

Follow the waymarkers into the forest, past the military sign, along the lovely, well signposted track, with the yellow waymarkers.

You will travel by forest roads, little woodland tracks, over and beside the streams (which eventually combine to form the River Douglas). The waymarkers eventually bring you through the car park at the end of Glensheskin Wood and onto Kilworth Village. As you travel this walk, the road takes you to the rear of the 'Range' boundary, beyond which is the 'deserted village' of White Bog, where the remains of houses can be seen.

N.B. Experienced walkers can and do get lost in the forest, so do not digress from the main walk at any time and especially if the military are using the firing ranges.

(Should you wish to shorten the walk, start at the Glensheskin Carpark and walk the main Ballyporeen/Clogheen road, turn left at Keane's Cross Roads (approximately 4.5km) and follow the above route.