Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Market-house
Brigown, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brigown
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Court House (1935)
- Coordinates
- 52.26612, -8.26964
- SMR number
- CO019-106----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In Mitchelstown, centrally placed on E side of New Market Square. Indicated on 1842 OS 6-inch map as rectangular structure (long axis N-S) with off-centre projection to rear, named 'Market & Court House'; enclosed yard to rear named 'Potatoe Shambles Market'. Rectangular 2-storey structure, front elevation and part of N and S elevations are of coursed limestone ashlar construction, rear and side walls of random-rubble with dressed quoins. Hipped roof. Front elevation (W) of 3 bays with central slim 1-bay pedimented breakfront; 3-bay arcade with wide elliptical-headed arches on ground floor, infilled with door and windows; modern memorial plaque to Irish patriots adjacent to S arcade. String course divides ground and 1st floor, rectangular sash windows on 1st floor, limestone plaque with two crowns under central window. Inserted door on N elevation, set slightly higher than ground level, cuts into an earlier blocked window with stone surrounds. Ground floor of rear elevation masked by modern additions, three stone-lintelled windows at 1st-floor level with stop and start surrounds; slightly off-centre door between ground and 1st-floor level. Modern buildings extend from S elevation. Erected in 1823, at cost of £3,000, by the Earl of Kingston (Lewis 1837, vol. 2, 373). Purchased by Mitchelstown Co-op in 1940s, now part of Co-op shop. Part of open yard to rear survives.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.