Cork Wide Streets Commissioners Archive- Descriptive List

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/55/3

Date:

8 August 1834

Title:

No.3 Improvements on map No.2 shewing the then properties and streets

when effected, 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. Sows proposed improvements to area - Copleys dock to be covered over, widening of Southern end of Angelsea Street. Division of Foleys Marsh into four. Union Island into two. Shows 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, Union Island. Shows Corn Market, South Infirmary, House of Industry. News proposed streets are Morrison Street, Barry Street, Foley Street, Union Street due to covering of Copleys Dock and Foley's Mars, land size reduced due to widening of Angelsea Street. Proposed improvements on map No.2, distinguishing the then different properties as of Spring 1834. 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/56

Date:

September 1834

Title: A Map of part of Monarea Marsh and the slab appertaining thereto the Estate of William Wise Esq….the improvements & proposed new line of demarcation between it and the Corporation slab. Proposed and Surveyed September [1834] for Michael Roberts Esq. by James Wherland. Level: Item Extent: 52 inches x 23 inches Part of: WSC/A Scope and Content: Plan of area south of South channel of River Lee including Harbour Commissioners ballast yard, estate of William Wise, proposed building ground on new Quay parallel to south branch of River. Shows Angelsea Bridge, Corn Market, Building Ground, Harbour Commissioners, Ballast Yard, Navigation Wall, Custom House. Kingston. James Wherland, Civil Engineer Scale: No scale given. Paper coloured pen and ink