Menlo old building

From this PDF (page 2)...

"...Our route up river takes us under the Quincentennial Bridge past the ruins of The Iodine. The bridge was built in the mid-1980’s to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Galway and is the bane of sailors who cannot get their masts under the bridge. The actual Iodine Factory was on Long Walk. It consisted of various sheds, floored with perforated flagstones, and with large tanks underneath. Raw seaweed was stored in the sheds, and as it decomposed, liquid matter flowed into the tanks. This was then distilled into something like charcoal from which a number of substances were extracted, including iodine. The decomposed seaweed was then taken by barge up the canal and river to an auxiliary factory at Terryland, where it was rendered into fertiliser. People living close to the Long Walk constantly complained about emissions from the plant, which they regarded as poisonous, so the company erected a depot on the Aran Islands instead. By 1876 the seaweed business had finished, but the ruins at Terryland have been known to generations of oarsmen going up and down the Corrib simply as 'The Iodine'."

Might even learn how to do some "ass brosing" ...

(I typo all the time. A particular favourite is typing 'doe snot' instead of 'does not')