ITEM/SERIES DESCRIPTIONS:
WSC/A Wide Streets Commissioners Maps, Plans and Drawings c1820 -1850s (1872) (81 items)
Reference:
WSC/A
Date:
c1820- 1850s (1872)
Title: Level:
Wide Streets Commissioners Maps, Plans and Drawings
series
Extent: Part of:
81 drawings IE 627/WSC
Scope and Content: Maps, Plans and Drawings of the Cork Wide Street Commissioners. Mainly pen and ink map area surveys relating to work of the Commissioners in various sections of the City where the widening or improvement of streets is proposed. Level of map detail varies, but often shows names of property owners, details about structures such as lime kilns, stores, mills are given. Most are drawn to scale. Locations include, for example, Globe Lane, Corn Market Street, Mannix Street, Union Quay, Watercourse Road, Sunday's Well, South Terrace, North Main Street, South Main Street, Shandon, The Lough, Spring Lane, Mulgrave Street, South Mall,
Names/signatures/surveyors include, for example, A. Klein, Patrick Aher, Michael Deasy, James Wherland, Robert Walker, Alexander Deane, Richard R. Brach, CW Lane, John Hoare.
Reference:
WSC/A/01
Date:
nd [early-mid 1800s]
Title: Level:
Plan of a house adapted for a piece of ground in Grafton's Alley
Item
Extent: Part of:
11.5 inches x 14 inches
WSC/A Scope and Content: Front elevation, plans of ground, 1st and 2nd floors. By George T. Beale, Architect. Scale: 10ft to 1.25 inches. Paper Colour Pen and Ink measured drawing
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