Search Results ... (467)
-
The Leviathan Telescope at Birr
The Leviathan Telescope at Birr
Drawing of the Leviathan Telescope at Birr built by William Parsons, the second Earl of Rosse.
Courtesy of Offaly County Library
-
Assembly Rooms / Protestant Hall
Assembly Rooms / Protestant Hall
The Committee of the Athenaeum, now the Opera House, refused permission for an ex-priest called Gavazzi to lecture there. The Committee disliked the anti-Catholic tone of Gavazzi's sermons. Many Protestants in the city were outraged at the refusal. Those attending a public meeting held in the Primitive Wesleyan Church on 17 December 1858 decided to build the Protestant Hall for the use of all citizens of Cork. The Earl of Bandon laid the foundation stone in 1860 and opened the hall on 12 April 1861. The entrance to the hall was not completed until 1869. Richard Rolt Brash designed the building. Brash was a distinguished antiquarian as well as an architect. He published articles in many learned journals. His major work is The ogam inscribed monuments of the Gaedhil in the British islands which was published in 1879 after his death. He died at his house in Sunday's Well on 18 Jan 1876 and is buried in St Finbarr's Cemetery. Many events were held in the hall over the years including operas and a boxing match involving the well-known Cork fighter Pakie Mahony. The Assembly Rooms was the first place in Cork where moving pictures were shown in 1896. It was a cinema from the early 1900s until 1964 and had the reputation of being a flea-pit. The best-known member of the staff at the cinema was the usher George O'Sullivan. Members of the audience would shout 'Georgie, remove the body' whenever anyone died on screen. The Capuchin order bought the hall after it closed as a cinema. The interior of the hall was gutted in 1970. The exterior survives unchanged except for the name over the entrance. Boys from the St Francis Training Centre for young people with problems, run by the Capuchins, opened a coffee shop there in 1989. Later it became a restaurant called The Assembs. Threshold, the National Housing Agency, took over the premises in 2005. (Image from: Irish Builder, Vol.11, 15 December 1869, p.289)
Cork City Libraries
-
Bantry Convent of Mercy Chapel
Bantry Convent of Mercy Chapel
The Sisters of Mercy established a convent and school in Bantry at Marino House in August 1861. Among the founding group were Mother de Chantal Coleman, Fanny Murphy and three other sisters. Fanny Murphy was a member of the wealthy Murphy family which had brewing and other business interests in Cork. In 1862 they moved to a new building which was built with money donated by Fanny Murphy. The chapel shown in the illustration was completed in 1879. (Image from: Irish Builder, Vol.19, 15 August 1877, p.243)
Cork City Libraries
-
Anglesea Bridge
Anglesea Bridge
The old Anglesea Bridge, built in the 1830s, could not cope with the volume of traffic using the bridge by the 1870s. Cork Corporation decided to replace the old bridge in 1875. It chose a swing bridge designed by T. Claxton Fiddler in 1877. The building of the new bridge was dogged by delays due to contractual and legal disputes. It was finally opened on 18 November 1882 and named Parnell Bridge. The swing bridge, which allowed schooners and small crafts access to the south channel of the Lee, was replaced by present-day Parnell Bridge on 24 May 1971. (Image from: Irish Builder, Vol.22, 1 April 1880, p.97)
Cork City Libraries
-
Enniskeane Church
Enniskeane Church
Bishop William Delaney laid the foundation stone of the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Enniskeane on 7 May 1871. Richard Evans designed the church in the Gothic style of architecture. It replaced a church which had been built about 1750. Richard Evans lived at 1 Ashton Lawn, Blackrock Road and had his business premises at 12 Union Quay.
Cork City Libraries
-
St Brendans Protestant Church
St Brendans Protestant Church
This is a view of St Brendans Church of Ireland Church built under the patronage of the second earl of Ross over the period 1812-1816 . The site is at the eastern end of Oxmantown Mall leading to the Castle gates
-
Ballyhooly Catholic Church
Ballyhooly Catholic Church
The Right Rev. William Keane, Bishop of Cloyne, laid the foundation stone of the Catholic church in Ballyhooly on 29 August 1867. George C. Ashlin and E. W. Pugin designed the church which is in the pointed style of architecture. It is built mainly from limestone with courses of sandstone. It was dedicated in 1870 and named the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The first parish priest in the new church was the Very Rev. Canon Philip Burton (Image from: Irish Builder, Vol.9, 15 May 1867, p.121)
Cork City Libraries
-
Carrigmahon Villas
Carrigmahon Villas
Carrigmahon Villas were built in the 1880s in the area between Glenbrook Baths and Tobin’s Quay. In 1913 one of the villas was destroyed by fire and the others were demolished soon after. Robin D. Joyce built a modern house on the site in 1930 and it was called Glencastle for a time before reverting to the old name Carrigmahon Villas. (Image from: Irish Builder, Vol.23, 1 April 1881, p.103)
Cork City Libraries
-
Kilcrumper - Underground Chamber
Kilcrumper - Underground Chamber
The exact location of the underground chambers or souterrains at Kilcrumper shown in the illustration is uncertain. Archaeologists cannot agree on the purpose of underground chambers. Some think they were used to store food while others think they were places of refuge in times of trouble. (Image from: Irish Builder, Vol.15, 1 December 1873, p.317)
Cork City Libraries
-
National Bank, Millstreet
National Bank, Millstreet
The National Bank in Millstreet is now part of the Bank of Ireland Group. In 1965 the Bank of Ireland took over the National Bank and changed its name to the National Bank of Ireland. The Bank of Ireland, Hibernian Bank and the National Bank of Ireland merged in 1969 to form the Bank of Ireland Group (Image from: Irish Builder, Vol.20, 1 April 1878, p.103)
Cork City Libraries