Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Almshouse
Cork City, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cork City
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Alms Ho.
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.90340, -8.47498
- SMR number
- CO074-105----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the E side of St Anne's graveyard (CO074-03301-) in Shandon; Skiddy's Almshouse, built in 1718-19 on the N side of Green Coat Hospital (C-shaped 3-storey building demolished in 1955, see photo in Craig 1982, 205). It is named after Stephen Skiddy, a wealthy Cork-born wine merchant who in 1584 set up a charity to care for the elderly poor in Cork City. It is a rendered, 2-storey building with an attic and a hipped roof. A characteristic feature of the building is an open loggia on two inward-facing sides. In 1966 it was saved from demolition by the Cork Preservation Society, following widespread opposition: https://www.rte.ie/archives/2016/0503/785794-skiddys-house/. It is now in residential use.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994), and has been revised and updated.
Date of revision: 05 January 2023
Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC, and Anne-Julie Lafaye
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 2/1968).
References
Craig, M. 1982 The architecture of Ireland from the earliest times to 1880. Dublin. Eason and Son Ltd. London. Batsford.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Leper hospitalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.