Pretty obvious why they’re called North and South Main Street from this, interesting how the main street of the city has changed since then.
Would the middle channel next to 5 be Patrick Street now?
Fun fact “le chateau” on Patrick’s St. has an entry on the first floor because, as you see in the picture, Patrick’s St. used to be a canal and sailors would step off the ship directly into the pub. Or so I’ve been told at least
Shaped like most cork people heads, I see the resemblance.
I heard everyone is still Raving about how great Cork was back then….
For reference the bridge in the top left is North Gate bridge and in the bottom right is South Gate Bridge. The long wall on the right side of the picture would run along where the Grand Parade is now. Much of the City centre now including Patricks street would be in reclaimed marsh land from the top right of the image. There used to be a canal running in front of where the Opera house is now which can be seen in the top centre.
Some say they never should have been allowed outside the walls
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Up there with Tenochtitlan.
Pretty obvious why they’re called North and South Main Street from this, interesting how the main street of the city has changed since then.
Would the middle channel next to 5 be Patrick Street now?
Fun fact “le chateau” on Patrick’s St. has an entry on the first floor because, as you see in the picture, Patrick’s St. used to be a canal and sailors would step off the ship directly into the pub. Or so I’ve been told at least
Picture quality back then wasn’t great was it.
I can see me gaf like!
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Corkonians: We should wall it up again
Everyone else: They should wall it up again
Shaped like most cork people heads, I see the resemblance.
I heard everyone is still Raving about how great Cork was back then….
For reference the bridge in the top left is North Gate bridge and in the bottom right is South Gate Bridge. The long wall on the right side of the picture would run along where the Grand Parade is now. Much of the City centre now including Patricks street would be in reclaimed marsh land from the top right of the image. There used to be a canal running in front of where the Opera house is now which can be seen in the top centre.
Some say they never should have been allowed outside the walls
Was the moat man-made?
Hadn’t seen much on this before so I found a video, just shows a few spots and where they are today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP_K6Hi5U3g
I worked out roughly on google maps that this sits: https://i.imgur.com/kN8iIEG.png
Would love to see this done in a world builder game like going medieval.
The wall isn’t to stop people getting into Cork
It’s to stop people getting out of there
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