Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, CORK, DEVELOPMENT PLAN (PROPOSED)

Name: ROBERTSON, MANNING DURDIN
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, DEVELOPMENT PLAN (PROPOSED)
Date: 1941
Nature: Plan proposing clearance & conversion to gardens of areas round St Mary's Cathedral and Elizabeth Fort; continuation of Academy St to river; clearanceof the Marsh; new road linking St Patrick St with City Hall; new bridge at S end of Grand Parade; new ring road
Refs: IB 73, 8 Nov 1941, 515; 76, 21 Oct 1944, 417-420 (this article says plan was 'discussed at some length' in issues of Sep & Oct 1941); 88, 26 Jan 1946, 44. (His plans for Cork may also have been the subject of the lectures he gave at the Cork School of Art in 1941, see IB 83, 15 Mar 1941, 133, and at University College Cork in 1945, see IB 87, 27 Jan 1945, 40)