‘A bit of dry rot isn’t going to stop us’: Historic Cork church set for €1m restoration

A landmark church with links to ‘The Liberator’, Daniel O’Connell, is being allowed to “breathe” for several months as part of an ambitious €1m repair and restoration project.

Engineers and architects overseeing the complex work on St Mary’s Catholic Church and associated buildings on Pope’s Quay in Cork city plan to install two special vents in the church roof after extensive dry rot was found in its walls.