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early 20th-century Irish art VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
including paintings by Jack
Yeats. There are also three fine Practical Information
windows by Ireland’s foremost Road map C5. Co Cork.
stained-glass artist, Harry * 119,000. n Tourist House,
Clarke (1889–1931). Grand Parade (021 425 5100).
Another attraction is the ∑ discoverireland.ie
small collection by British _ Cork Jazz Festival (Oct); Cork
artists and international works Film Festival (Oct/Nov).
by artists such as Joán Miró Transport
and Georges Rouault. k 6 km (4 miles) S of Cork (021
The gallery is well known for 431 3131). £ Kent Station (021
its excellent café, which serves Richly decorated apse ceiling of St Fin 450 6766). @ Parnell Place (021
lunches and delicious teas. The Barre’s Cathedral 450 8188).
room is decorated with works
of art from the collection. R St Fin Barre’s Cathedral
Bishop Street. Tel 021 496 3387. it is an exuberant triple-spired
Open May–Oct: daily; Nov–Apr: edifice built in Gothic Revival
Mon–Sat. &8 Closed 24 Dec– style. Inside, the painted and
LIMERICK, 2 Jan (except for services). 7
MALLOW, gilded apse ceiling shows Christ
BLARNEY ∑ cathedral.cork.anglican.org
St Mary's in Glory surrounded by angels.
Pro-Cathedral N20 Situated in a quiet part of town, The stained-glass windows
Cork Butter this cathedral is dedicated to the below tell the story of Christ’s life.
Museum St Anne's LEITRIM ST founder and patron saint of the E Cork City Gaol
city. Completed in 1870 to the
S H A NDO N ST Firkin Shandon ST PATRICK'S HILL design of William Burges, Convent Avenue, Sunday’s Well.
Tel 021 430 5022. Open daily.
B LARNE Y STREET Theatre DOMINICK ST COBURG ST WELLINGTON ROAD St Patrick's Cork Kent Closed 25 & 26 Dec. & 8 7
Crane
Station
MACCUR TAI N ST LWR GLANMIRE RD
9 - = ∑ corkcitygaol.com
J REDMOND ST
Griffith POPE'S QUAY St Mary's A pretty, 20-minute walk west
Dominican Church
Bridge
SUNDAY’S WELL RD NORT H MALL COAL QUAY CAMDEN QUAY St Patrick's of the city centre leads to the
Christy Ring
ST PATRICK'S QUAY
Bridge
BACHE LOR’S Q UAY NORTH MAIN ST STREET Art Gallery EMMET Mathew ANDERSON'S QUAY Custom exhibition traces the lives of
Brian Boru
Cork Cork Vision Opera Bridge North Channel PENROSE QUAY restored City Gaol, complete
Exhibition
Bridge
House
City Gaol Centre Crawford Father with its furnished cells. An
MERC HANT'S QUAY
HEN RY STREET
S T PATRICK’S ST
Statue
House
L e e GR ATTA N STRE ET CASTLE ST PAUL ST PLACE MAYLOR ST PARN E LL S T R E E T C h a n n e l individual inmates imprisoned
here during the 19th and 20th
CORNMARKET
FRENCH
O L I V E R P L U N K E T T
CHURCH ST
CAREY'S LA
Clontarf
miserable and, for punish ment,
Fitzgerald Park SH E ARES S T R E E T PLACE LAPPS QUAY centuries. Conditions were
Bridge
& Museum English COOK STREET Parnell AL BE R T Q UAY prisoners were made to run on
Market
Bridge
DY KE PA RAD E WASHINGTON S TREET SOUTH MAIN ST Triskel S O U T H M A L L S o u t h A LB E R T S T a human treadmill that would
U AY UN ION QUAY
normally be used to grind grain.
Arts
LANCAS TER QUAY Centre Holy M O RR IS ON’ S QU AY ANGELSEA ST City The Radio Museum Experience
Hall
GRAND PARADE
Trinity
National
SOUTH CITY LINK RD
Church
KILLARNEY SHARMAN CRAW FORD ST Monument Parliament Ringaskiddy Ferry is also housed in this building
and chronicles the development
15 km (9 miles)
SULLIVAN'S QUAY
GEOR G E' S Q
L e e Bridge of radio in Ireland and across
P R O B Y 'S QU AY Elizabeth COVE STREET MARY ST the world.
Fort
St Fin Barre's Cathedral Red Abbey South
GILL A B B E Y ST DE A N ST REET ABBEY STREET Chapel
Cork Airport
6 km (4 miles) EVERGREEN STREET
TOWER STREET
0 metres 250
0 yards 250
South Channel of the River Lee, looking towards Parliament Bridge
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