The exterior of St. Bonaventure's Capuchin Hostel, Victoria Cross, Cork. Construction work on the near-complete Cork County Hall on Carrigrohane Road is visible in the background. Completed in 1968 and designed by Cork county architect, Patrick McSweeney, the 16-storey building was some 64.3 metres high, and supplanted Dublin’s Liberty Hall as the country’s tallest building. It has since been superseded as the Republic’s tallest structure by the 17-storey (68 metre) high Elysian building also located in Cork.
Scale: 1/8 inch to 1 foot Plan of the Assembly Rooms fronting onto the South Mall by O’Flynn & Green, 3 Westbourne Villas, Western Road, Cork. The plan shows the ground floor plan of the building, comprising the entrance hall on the South Mall, and the main hall and projection room which is bordered to the east by the ‘Priory Garden’, and to the west by ‘Holy Trinity Church’. See also CA HT/2/1/1/36.
This section includes deeds, leases and other related legal documents relating to title for 141 Church Street and properties at the rear thereof known as 1-3 Thunder’s Court. By the late 1880s, St. Mary of the Angels and the adjoining Capuchin Friary had been built, but the lack of any extra ground, apart from the sites on which these buildings stood, remained a great inconvenience. As part of an extension plan, a lease of the aforementioned properties was secured in 1888. This section also includes a lease of a property known as no. 151 Church Street dated 7 Sept. 1920.
A photograph of Seamus Murphy, sculptor (1907-1975), a Cork-born sculptor, and an important figure in twentieth century Irish art. The photograph shows Murphy under the pillars of the old butter exchange building opposite the tower of the Church of St Anne, Shandon, in his native Cork.
An image of the bell tower of Graiguenamanagh Abbey in County Kilkenny. An ink annotation on the reverse reads 'The bell tower and top of the disused section of the abbey seen above the Lancet windows of the monks' dormitory'.