Large District lunatic asylum erected to a design by George Wilkinson (1814-90). It has a symmetrical plan comprising nine-bay two-storey central block centred on three-bay two-storey pedimented projecting breakfront with five-bay two-storey projecting “pavilions”
The chapel was designed in a Romanesque style to blend in with the existing convent buildings –
Originally constructed as a parish church, it was designed by Fr Jeremiah Ryan McAulay,
Imposingly solid bank branch for the Ulster Bank Company, and still in use by the same company today,
In 1814, while the building was still the Royal Exchange, the balustrade at the front collapsed killing a number of people in a crowd gathered outside to witness the punishment of a criminal.
The Munster Arcade was one of the principal department stores in Cork. Based on St. Patrick’s Street,
Still in use today, it was described at the time of its completion as a ‘very neat little church’.
“The new institute presents a frontage of about 40 feet by 70 feet flank, each elevation harmonizing in character,
Never constructed on the site intended for it, opposite the old church of St. Conall on which Hevey also worked.
Destroyed during the 1941 Belfast Blitz along with its later extension of 1899 on the corner with High Street.
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