[2] Before the famine, the Wood family from Yorkshire owned the townland surrounding the river.

The Woods built a hunting lodge by the river, using a salmon net with a bell alert system to detect caught fish.

They cultivated oil seed in a nearby area called "Park na Rapa".

[3] A road connecting two nearby villages, Carrowteige and Glenamoy, was built in 1846.

Annie Brady, the wife of a local Fisheries Inspector fundraised for a new bridge, completed in 1886.