Cork Wide Streets Commissioners Archive- Descriptive List

Area plan, Nelsons Place, Coal Quay and Half Moon Street. Shows Royal Cork Institution and Cork Athenaeum (today Crawford Art Gallery and Cork Opera House), Academy Street and Godsills Lane.Possibly proposed planning for Royal Cork Institution and Cork Athenaeum, situated in area of Nelson's Place and Coal Quay Scale: 20 Feet to 1 inch. Paper coloured pen and ink

Reference:

WSC/A/55/1

Date:

8 Aug 1834

Title: No.1 Map of the South Terrace that part of Monera Marsh the property of Daniel B Foley Esq. and Union Island the property of Michael Roberts Esq. in the City of Cork 1834 by James Wherland CE. Level: Item Extent: 28 inches x 17 inches Part of: WSC/A Scope and Content: Plan of area of South Terrace/Union Quay/Anglesea Street and surrounding streets and quays as existing before proposed improvements. Copleys Dock (main street), Blackrock Road, Langford Row, Rutland Street, Kemp Street, White Street, Deans Lane, Stable Lane, Angelsea Street, Foleys Marsh, Union Quay, Wellington Quay, Lapps Quay, South Mall, Buckingham Square, Morrisons Island, South Branch of River Lee, Lime Kilns, Angelsea Bridge, Morrisons rampart, Union Island. Shows Corn Market, South Informary, House of Industry.Surveyed for the Wide Street Commissioners of Cork by Order of their Committee of Improvement Cork 8th August 1834. Scale: 100 feet to 1 inch. Paper coloured pen and ink

Reference:

WSC/A/55/2

Date:

8 August 1834

Title:

No.2 Proposed improvements on Map No.1 distinguishing the Present

Different Properties as of Spring Assizes 1834 by James Wherland CE. Level: Item Extent: 28 inches x 17 inches Part of: WSC/A Scope and Content:

Plan of area of South Terrace/Union Quay/Anglesea Street and surrounding streets and quays. Shows proposed improvements to area - Copleys dock to be covered over, widening of Southern end of Angelsea Street. Division of Foleys Marsh into four.Shows Copleys Dock (main street), Blackrock Road, Langford Row, Rutland Street, Kemp Street, White Street, Deans Lane, Stable Lane, Angelsea Street, Union Quay, Wellington Quay, Lapps Quay, South Mall, Buckingham Square, Morrisons Island, South Branch of River Lee, Lime Kilns, Angelsea Bridge, Morrisons rampart, Union Island. Shows Corn Market, South Infirmary, House of