ACA South Parish Sub-Area B: 18th Century streets between Evergreen St. and South Channel
However many of these still have late-Georgian details to doors and windows. The area also contains a number of religious institutions, churches and schools set on larger sites between the terraced houses, including the ruined Red Abbey tower of the former Augustinian friary, the oldest standing structure in the city.
1.104 This sub-area, of archaeological, historical, architectural and social significance, is
characterised by its grid of regular streets running between the older arterial roads leading into the old city (Evergreen, Douglas & Abbey Streets) and the subsequently developed quaysides of Sullivan’s Quay and George’s Quay (originally Roche’s Quay). The buildings located in this grid of streets vary from large 3 and 4-storey mid-18th century Georgian style buildings on the quaysides some with brick façades, cut-stone detailing and metal railings, to more modest 18th and 19th century terraced houses in the streets behind.
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Cork City Draft Development Plan 2022-2028
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