Carey Tool Hire move to new site clears way for 25-storey apartment tower on Cork city quays

Uprooting from a city quayside site after six decades will be a pleasant wrench for a Cork business – in return for moving, Carey Tool Hire is getting a brand new building, on a three-acre Ring Road site, passed by up to 100,000 cars a day, plus a multi-million euro site sale windfall.

Plans for the 25-storey, 201-apartment tower, plaza and restored railway terminus building on Cork city’s Albert Quay/Albert Street and Albert Road have taken a stride forward with the confirmation of a replacement South Ring Road property for the quay site’s long-term occupier, Carey Tool Hire, who’ve been trading on the quays since 1961.