20 19 18 13 1 17 15 16 12 2 14 3 4 11 8 5 9 6 10 7 1 As you walk down North Main Street. look at the 2 Christchurch is a restored 1700’s neo classical HystericalHysterical ground to find plaques with the medieval laneway church and was the main church in Cork City in the names on them. The symbols represent the 1600’s. There have been churches on the site as HistoriesCORK different types of businesses in Cork at the time. far back as at least 1050. It held archives from Histories 1979-2005 and is now part of the Triskel. ACTIVITY: Count how many types of businesses there are on the plagues. Can you find the metal ACTIVITY: Can you remember the name of the gateway which represents the map of the original man who was crowned King of England here in https://HystericalHistories.ie city on the Bradleys Shop side of the street? 1492? South Main Street is one of the oldest streets in Just a 10 minute walk from Cork's city centre, UCC We heard our History Keepers say that Cat Fort 3 Cork and was destroyed by the Williamites when 6 was established in 1845. George Boole became 9 was taken by the Williamites when they invaded they shot down at it from Elizabeth Fort in 1690. the University's first Professor of Mathematics in the city in 1690. Although the fort does not exist The Coppinger family home on this street is where 1849. Because of his work in logic, which computer today there is huge wall at the top of Friar St that Oliver Cromwell stayed while he was in the city in operating systems are based on, he has been was once a part of it. Depending on who you ask 1649/50. called the Father of the Digital Age. In 1910 Mary Cork people will have different reasons for the fort Ryan was made professor of Romance Languages being called Cat Fort. ACTIVITY: The Beamish and Crawford Brewery making her the first woman Professor in Ireland site on South Main St is hard to miss. This marks and the United Kingdom. ACTIVITY: Do you think the name comes from the site where the Vikings settled in the City. Can being the site of an old cattle market, or because you remember what food the History Keepers said ACTIVITY: There are large stones with ancient the Irish word for battlements is cath? Have a chat was found when then excavated the site in 2003? Ogham lettering on them somewhere at UCC. Can on your way to the next stop. you find them? South Gate Bridge was one of the entrances into Harry Clarke was a famous Irish stained glass Nano Nagle Place is where Nano Nagle is buried. 4 the original city, and there was a prison here. 7 artist. Between 1915 and 1918, he created nine 10 You can still visit her grave and those of the first Criminals who were beheaded had their heads put windows for the Honan Chapel. You can find his few Presentation Order nuns who helped her to up on spikes to scare others into behaving. (It work all over the world and at the Crawford art educate the Catholic children of Cork for a small didn’t work for the poor prisoner our heroes met Gallery in Cork City, which is also free to visit. admission fee. here on their journey through time!) If you walk from here down South Main St, across to North ACTIVITY: Find St Finbar with his glowing hand ACTIVITY: Can you find Nano Nagle's grave? Main St and up as far as North Gate bridge, you tour heroes talked about in the show. Take a photo are walking the full length of the original city of or make a drawing of it. Then try to recreate it (or Cork in the footsteps of the Normans who built the create your own design!) at home using tissue original walls in the eleven hundreds. paper and black card, scissors and glue. There are Cove Lane was the site of Nano Nagle's first lots of tutorials on YouTube! 11 school. We heard our heroes speak about how she ACTIVITY: Can you spot the entrance to the was named most influential woman of the dungeon under South Gate Bridge? Millennium for her pioneering work in educating Catholic girls in Ireland. Elizabeth Fort is a 17th-century star fort off Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral is a Gothic Revival 8 Barrack Street (one of the oldest streets in the ACTIVITY: Follow her footsteps to Nano Nagle 5 three-spire cathedral in the city of Cork which city). You can pay a small fee for a tour of the Fort Place which is now a museum dedicated to her life stands on the site where the founder of Cork, St or follow the walls around the outside of the as stealthily as you can, hiding behind corners, Finbar, built his original 7th century monastery. building for free. Originally built as a defensive avoiding cars and eye contact with strangers just (You heard all about from our Heroes in the show!) fortification outside the city walls, the city as she would have had to do in the late 1700’s It belongs to the Church of Ireland and was eventually grew around the fort. It was from here (well not the car bit because they didn’t have cars completed in 1879. that the Williamites destroyed South Main street then, but you get the idea). Under the penal laws, during the siege of Cork in 1690 in the show. operating a Catholic school could result in three ACTIVITY: The grounds of the Cathedral are free months imprisonment if she was caught. to visit. In them is an archwaywhich dates back to ACTIVITY: Try to follow the walls the whole way the 12th century. Can you find it and make a quick around the outside of the building. What other So don’t get caught! sketch? historical buildings can you see from here and how many church steeples can you count? 2 There are statues of Tomás Macurtain and ACTIVITY: Can you find what is left of the original ACTIVITY: Did you know she had a very famous 12 Terrence Macswiney outside Cork City Hall. Do walls in Bishop Lucey Park? If you were to build a uncle? Google James Barry to find out what was you remember who they were? wall around Cork nowadays what would it look he famous for. Is there anywhere that you can still like? Would kind of features would it have? Build visit in the city that has a connection to him? ACTIVITY: There are streets named after these your own walled city in Minecraft or out of Lego! men and their families around the city centre. Do you know where they are? Do your parents know what they were called before they were renamed? The Opera House was rebuilt by the people of The English Market is where our heroes met the (Give them hint if they are stuck, one of them was 19 Cork, who fundraised to rebuild their beloved 16 Queen. Did you know that there has been a market only renamed in 2021.) theatre after it was destroyed by fire in 1955. It was here since 1788 and that foods that the Normans the only Opera house in the Republic of introduced to the city such as bodice can still be Ireland until 2008 when the National Opera House bought there? was opened in 2008 in Wexford. You heard our heroes say that Cork Harbour, 13 emerging from the Port of Cork, is the second ACTIVITY: There is a fountain here that has ACTIVITY: Have you ever been to the Opera largest natural harbour in the world. It’s the home survived floods and fire. Can you find it? House? Do you know anyone who has been, or to the oldest Yacht club in the world and has many maybe even appeared on it's stage? Ask grownups really interesting stories to tell all of its own. Queen you know if they have any memories of the place. Elizabeth the 1st’s friend Sir Francis Drake is said Did they see anyone famous perform there? to have hidden from the Spanish in what is now In December 1920 most of Patrick Street was called Drake’s Pool near Crosshaven in 1589. 17 destroyed during the Burning of Cork. It’s a funny winding shape, does this shape remind you of anything? If we reminded you that most of the city ACTIVITY: A world famous ship sank after visiting The Williamites took Shandon Castle or Sean Dún was a marsh or covered in water, would that help? Cobh in the harbour of Cork in 1912. Do you know 20 meaning Old Fort when they invaded in 1690. St what it was called? Ann's Church now stands on the site. For a small ACTIVITY: Put your family on the map. Make your fee, you can climb to the top and play tunes on the own map of Cork, only putting places that you find famous Shandon Bells, which can be heard all interesting or that are important to you or your over the city. Pay a visit to the Shandon sweet There is a canon stuck in the ground here which family on it. Can you mark your favourite store or factory around the corner and buy yourself some 14 people used to tie their horses up to when the city where someone you know works? traditional boiled sweets for a treat.