Customs & Commerce The Customs and Commerce walk follows the river and showcases some of the old and new commercial buildings in the city. These buildings track the commercial history of Cork City and highlight its many industries over time. For the more energetic walker this route can be combined with the Medieval to Modern walking route.
The North Monastery
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An Mhainistir Thuaidh Our Lady’s Mount, Ard Mhuire, Monastery Road Gaelcholáiste Mhuire AG
Open 10am to 12noon Full wheelchair access
On November 9th, 1811, Brother Jerome O’Connor and Brother John Baptist Leonard opened the doors of a small school in Chapel Lane to just 17 students. News of this small beginning quickly spread and soon the school was far too small. In 1814 a site at Ard Mhuire, Our Lady’s Mount was purchased, cleared and construction of a new school and Monastery began. An outbreak of typhus fever saw the school being used as a temporary hospital before it officially opened to students in 1817. The celebrated poet and novelist Bro. Gerard Griffin joined the Christian Brothers in 1839 and his remains are interred in the North Mon Cemetery. In 1877 the technical genius Bro. James Dominic Burke thrilled the people of Cork when to celebrate the jubilee of Pope Pius DC, he flashed beams of electric light into the sky from the grounds of the Mon, a full 2 years before Thomas Edison’s patented the light bulb. Around the same time Bro. John P Holland began model tests of his new design, the submarine, in the North Mon’s Ornamental Pond. Many items connected to the above and to Tomás Mac Curtain, Terence McSwiney and Jack Lynch are on display in the Gaelcholáiste. It is estimated over 200,000 students have passed through the North Monastery over the last 200 years.
Buildings on this walk are: National Sculpture Factory
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LÉ Aoibhinn
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City Hall
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Cork Savings Bank
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The Imperial Hotel
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AIB Bank
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Carpenters Hall
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