St. Fin Barre's Cathedral and Elizabeth Fort, from the South Gate Bridge
South Gate Bridge (1713 and 1824)
and St Fin Barre's Cathedral (seen from Elizabeth Fort)
(that patch of grey sky is now obliterated by yet another apartment block)
moving up the south channel: Clarke's Bridge (1776)
leading left to Crosse's Green, where the Lee turns around the old Beamish & Crawford brewery
...and right to Wandesford Quay
which in turn leads to the Crawford College of Art & Design
at Wandesford Quay: the Lee slipping off the weir from Lancaster Quay
And just around the corner: Cork's own Flatiron Building on the corner of Hanover Street, with the frontage of the old Hive Iron Works
A modern vista on Lancaster Quay
traditionally associated with St Finbarr, who is said to have spent time in contemplation in a cave there
weir below Gillabbey Rock visible from Lancaster Quay Gillabbey Rock
Alumni Bridge, University College Cork
Gaol Bridge
The Curraheen river meets the Lee, UCC campus, Western Road
The little seen Peter O'Neill Crowley bridge close by; it may be glimpsed from the grounds of the Sacred Heart Church, Western Road.
Thomas Davis (Wellington) Bridge
The Red and the White
Riverside villas, Sunday's Well
Daly's Bridge, Cork's beloved 'Shaky Bridge'
The former St.Vincent's Church, Sunday's Well overlooking the Mardyke reach of the Lee
James Scanlon's SíolanRogha, which may be translated as the 'seed, or fruit, of (educational) choice; a work of high originality, sadly discarded at the Distillery Fields campus of UCC on the banks of the Lee.
Alderman Reilly's Bridge over the mill race at Distillery Fields, once known as Reilly's Marsh
Mardyke Bridge (2005)
old weir rapids, Mardyke reach
A fine example of Cork's 'pepper and salt' limestone and sandstone masonry, now revealed after a restoration: Mardyke Cottage (1819)
left
George Boole house
Grenville PlaceBachelor's Quay, awaiting interior restoration right
Lee Maltings
UCC campus
The
Lee at the Mercy Hospital
St. Vincent's Bridge, leading directly across the north channel from the George Boole house
A pleasing elliptical bow front on the North Mall, which begins at St Vincent's Bridge
on Grattan Street which runs due south from Bachelor's Quay opposite the North Mall, all the way back to Clarke's Bridge: tombstones in the former burial ground of St Peter's Church, now a park.
left
No.8, North Mall right
St Paul's Church, the site of sailors' graves.
Five of the twenty-five or so public bridges
Christy Ring (Opera House) Bridge
about Spenser's Islandfayre
in the foreground, a Queen Anne house
Pope's Quay (named for a Mr Pope)
The old Custom House of 1724 to 1812, which may be seen in the c.1755 painting by John Butts, is now part of the Crawford Gallery (the Crawford name again; Cork would be the poorer in distinguished buildings without it).
The window and lunette clock face above what was once the original main, eastern entrance to the Custom House. Note the carved pineapples, an 18th century symbol of hospitality. The pineapple also hints at the close trading links in the period between Cork and the West Indies.
The original doorway, right, of the northern façade of the Custom House, with stone-carved hooded canopy
Below: the Butts painting (detail)
St. Patrick's Bridge, 1859
A model is suggested by the Santa Trinita bridge in Florence
Parliament Bridge (1806)
Brian Boru bridge, once a navigation drawbridge
Parnell Bridge, 1971
old Parnell Bridge (1882), a navigation swing bridge, had replaced the graceful Annesley Bridge, left, which was a navigation lift bridge
Dragonslayer
Penrose Quay
Uplift
MasterBuilders
Trinity Presbyterian Church
St Patrick's Church
Meetingof theWaters
The north and south channels of the Lee meet here, below the old bonded warehouses on Custom House Dock and, on the Marina, the Sebastopol Gun
Victoria Quay: something old, something new
The now vacated Custom House and seat of the Cork Harbour Commissioners
TrueGrit
old bonded warehouses
Lr. Glanmire Road: the former Harbour Commissioners workshop and, on the same site still, the patent-slip dock which was a centre of 19th century shipbuilding.
Upriver
Downriver
see also 'Cork from the ground up' on issuu.com/shorecrab