Process to demolish Cork City's iconic R&H Hall to start within days

The demolition work will cause some disruption to car parking in the area

The R&H Hall grain silos. File picture: Dan Linehan

A six-month process to demolish the giant R&H grain silos that have dominated Cork City’s skyline for 90 years is due to get underway within days.

Conservation experts involved in the work have described as “groundbreaking” the scale of archaeological 3D recording being used in the process, in respect of historic industrial machinery. UCC's Dr Colin Rynne, director of the Historic Building Survey Unit, Department of Archaeology, said it was of a scale “not usual in this country”.