Cork's Shandon Street landmark to be all ‘buttered up’ in public art project

A landmark building on Cork’s famous Shandon Street is to be covered in ‘butter wrappers’ as part of a striking public art project.

Scaffolding was erected yesterday around 62 Shandon Street, a four storey, double frontage end-of-terrace property next to the North Gate Bridge, which was built around 1810 and which houses The Friary Bar on the ground floor.

Facade repairs will be carried out over the coming days before artist Tom Doig and his team move on site to wrap the top three stories in 91-square metres of 90-gramme paper wrapping which displays butter wrappers bearing the names of Cork townlands and villages which produced butter over the last two centuries. New LED lighting will be installed before the artwork, titled ‘Flags of the Townland’, will be unveiled before the end of the month.