New kids on the block

BRICKFIELDS mightn’t sound like the most imaginative of names for a residential development, particularly when brick isn’t even used in the design.

But the brick reference harks back to a piece of local history in the case of an apartment development of extra-large units about to come out of the stocks at Skehard Road in Cork city.

Mud from the tidal Douglas estuary nearby (now a bird sanctuary) was removed and dried into bricks for building with in the field by this two acre site by the roundabout at the top of Well Road and Skehard Road, says estate agent Tim Sullivan.