Former Cork prison site being considered for housing potential

Lying idle for five years, the former jail on the northside of Cork City could become a site for new homes

The former Cork Prison, which closed in 2016, is one of the landbanks in Cork being studied by the Land Development Agency as a potential site for housing. Picture: Dan Linehan

The Land Development Agency (LDA) is examining the mothballed former Cork Prison site’s potential to deliver housing.

Documents released under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act show that the LDA, the State body set up to co-ordinate the delivery of housing on State land, has engaged with the Irish Prison Service (IPS) and the Department of Justice in relation to the former prison site on Rathmore Rd, which closed in 2016.