Cork City Gaol
Prison/jail in Cork, Ireland, dating from 1815–1825
Detached five-bay-three-storey gate house, built 1818-24, comprising three-storey central block with canted bay towers to front (south) elevation and flanking lower single-bay two-storey wings. Now in use as heritage centre. Roof not visible behind crenulated parapet with cut sandstone stringcourse to central block and false sandstone machicolations to side wings. Dressed sandstone walls with blank sandstone panel above door opening and cut limestone quoins and plinth. Bipartite square-headed window openings under cut limestone label moulding with cut limestone surrounds having four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows to front elevation and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to rear (north) elevation. Square-headed blank rectangular openings with cut sandstone surrounds to towers. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber battened door set in segmental-headed cut limestone surround with cut voussoirs. Round-headed door openings to rear with cut limestone surrounds, overlight and timber battened doors. Accessed via cut limestone steps leading to platform with recent railing.
- Type:
- Prison/jail
- Period:
- 1815–1825
- Where:
- Cork, Ireland
- Coordinates:
- 51.90°N, 8.50°W
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