Council to do 'stocktake' of Cork city's historic buildings

The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (NIAH) project hopes to help secure resources to help custodians and owners of historic buildings to properly care for them

Lord Mayor of Cork, Kieran McCarthy, said: “I had a motion down on this relating to North Main Street, South Main Street, and Washington Street a number of years ago, where bits and pieces of buildings were falling." Picture: David Creedon

Cork City Council is going to do a “stocktake” of the condition of almost 800 historic buildings to help shape future policy on dereliction and vacancy within the city.

It is teaming up with the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (NIAH) on the project which it hopes will help secure additional resources to assist custodians and owners of historic buildings to properly care for and repair these structures, if need be.