Overview
The Mercy Hospital — Prospect Row is recorded as house in Cork. The saved source gives an exact reason to look beyond the map label: Pair of former houses, built c. 1740, incorporated in hospital extension, c. 1950.
Why it was built
The saved source records: Pair of former houses, built c. 1740, incorporated in hospital extension, c. 1950.
People and work
The short source does not safely name the people, events or traditions tied to this exact point. A famous nearby story is not attached without evidence that it belongs here.
How it changed
The saved source records: Façade, roof, and some openings altered.
What survives
The saved source records: Façade, roof, and some openings altered.
Why it mattered
The Mercy Hospital — Prospect Row matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: Though the external appearance of this pair of eighteenth-century former houses is now altered and incorporated into a mid twentieth-century hospital extension, this former pair retains original interior features, including lugged door surrounds, plaster work, wall panelling and a timber staircase. This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.
History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.
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