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St Patrick's Street (Irish: Sráid Naomh Pádraig) is the main shopping street of the city of Cork in the south of Ireland. The street was subject to redevelopment in 2004, and has since won two awards as Ireland's best shopping street. [ 1 ]
Among his first commissions was the rebuilding of St Patricks Bridge in Cork, which had been damaged by severe flooding in 1789. [ 5 ] [ 4 ] Over the coming decades Hargrave was responsible for a number of merchant manor houses in the area (including Vernon Mount c. 1790, Lotabeg c. 1800, additions to Castle Hyde c. 1801, and works at Fota House ).
Wellington Road (Irish: Bóthar Wellington) [2] is a road on the north-side of Cork city. Wellington Road stretches almost a kilometre from St. Patricks Place (off St. Patricks Hill), to St. Lukes Cross at the eastern end of the road. Historically, Wellington Road was a relatively affluent residential area with some large houses.
From here the route continues into Cork city centre and terminates at the N22 road at St. Patrick's Street. The M8 motorway was completed in May 2010, replacing the single carriageway sections of the old N8 and bypassing towns on the main Cork to Dublin road. It is now possible to travel from Cork to Dublin on the M/N8 in about 2 hours 30 minutes.
The Atheneum (Cork Opera House (1855) used as a template the design for the exhibition buildings at the Irish Industrial Exhibition. [4] Berwick Fountain, Cork (1860) St. Patrick's Bridge, Cork (1861) The Western Tower over the main door of the North Chapel in Cork was designed by Benson. [5]
St. Patrick's Bridge. The city's road infrastructure improved in the late 20th and early 21st century, including the early 1980s construction of the Cork South Link dual carriageway which links the Kinsale Road roundabout with the city centre. Shortly after, the first sections of the South Ring dual carriageway were opened.
There is a plaque on St Patrick's Bridge in Cork that commemorates its opening by Arnott on 12 December 1861. In 1896, he bought the Duke of Devonshire's Irish estate in County Cork for about £250,000, [2] and turned it onto a 32,000 acre stud farm, both for his own interest in horse racing, and to improve the livestock of local farmers.
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