Re: Re: reorganisation and destruction of irish catholic churches

Anthony Charnley’s prospect of Cork City published in Smith’s History of Cork in 1750. It shows all of the medieval churches in the old city. Many of them had been rebuilt in the elegant “Italian” or Paladian idiom following the destruction caused by the bombardment of Cork during th Williamite siege of 1690. With the exception of Cork Cathedral (which was rebuilt in the 19th century) and of St. Mary’s, Shandon, all of them have passed out of ecclesiastical use and are deployed to less than savoury purpose. Indeed, it would be useful to know what Cork Corporation is doing with Christ Church, or what the recent commercial development around St. Paul’s has done to its interior, and whether or not the sepulchral monuments have been restored to the internal walls of St. Peter’s (having been gauged out and dumped at the back door of the church).