HIBERNIAN BUILDINGS ALBERT STREET
HIBERNIAN BUILDINGS ALBERT ROAD [CORK CITY]
Terrace of single-storey artisan dwellings, built 1877, some with gable fronts; many altered and extended. Originally having slate pitched roofs, some of the buildings have been reroofed and the original rooflines altered by dormer insertions. Brickwork walls in Flemish bond with concrete lintels and terracotta inserts to lintels.
This is the centre of what once was Cork's Jewish quarter.
I must admit that I was surprised when I came across this: "Please note that the former communal synagogue was deconsecrated in 2016.. As a result, educational and cultural tours can no longer be facilitated."
THE NEAREST SYNAGOGUE IS LOCATED IN TERENURE, DUBLIN.
Locally known as "Jewtown" the area around Hibernian Buildings / Albert Road became a Jewish quarter towards the end of the 19th century. In 1904 after a pogrom against Limerick's small Jewish population led by a local Catholic priest, most of the Jews of Limerick relocated here.
Famous residents included former Lord Mayor of Cork Gerald Y. Goldberg and film maker Louis Marcus.
There was never persecution of the Cork Jewish community as existed elsewhere and the area was not a ghetto in that sense. They worshipped at the Cork Synagogue on the South Terrace nearby.
In the 1950s the Jewish population of the city declined from around 400 at its peak to less than 20.
Terrace of single-storey artisan dwellings, built 1877, some with gable fronts; many altered and extended. Originally having slate pitched roofs, some of the buildings have been reroofed and the original rooflines altered by dormer insertions. Brickwork walls in Flemish bond with concrete lintels and terracotta inserts to lintels.
This is the centre of what once was Cork's Jewish quarter.
I must admit that I was surprised when I came across this: "Please note that the former communal synagogue was deconsecrated in 2016.. As a result, educational and cultural tours can no longer be facilitated."
THE NEAREST SYNAGOGUE IS LOCATED IN TERENURE, DUBLIN.
Locally known as "Jewtown" the area around Hibernian Buildings / Albert Road became a Jewish quarter towards the end of the 19th century. In 1904 after a pogrom against Limerick's small Jewish population led by a local Catholic priest, most of the Jews of Limerick relocated here.
Famous residents included former Lord Mayor of Cork Gerald Y. Goldberg and film maker Louis Marcus.
There was never persecution of the Cork Jewish community as existed elsewhere and the area was not a ghetto in that sense. They worshipped at the Cork Synagogue on the South Terrace nearby.
In the 1950s the Jewish population of the city declined from around 400 at its peak to less than 20.
THE PHOTO DIARY IS NOT LIMITED TO CORK AS I ONLY VISIT THE CITY ONCE EVERY YEAR AND 2020 MAY BE AN EXCEPTION. I AM BASED IN DUBLIN BUT DURING THE SUMMER MONTHS I VISIT BELFAST, LIMERICK, GALWAY, KILKENNY AND WATERFORD AND USUALLY DEVOTE A WEEK TO PHOTOGRAPHING EACH OF THE CITIES IN QUESTION
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