Mercy University Hospital Cork now incorporates the Mayoralty House
- Throughout the 18th century patrons tended to look abroad for their architect. An architect from Sardinia, Davis Ducart designed amongst other buildings, the Customs House in Limerick (now home to the Hunt Museum) and the Mayoralty house in Cork. Cork Mercy University Hospital incorporates this old Mayoralty House built in 1767. When erected it acted as a potent development stimulus for urbanisation in a zone of newly reclaimed marshes in Cork City.
It served as the formal residence of the City's Mayor.
From 1847 it served as a Diocesan College administered by the Vincentians, before commencing its modern function as Ireland's first Mercy Hospital on 17th March 1857.
It is Italian in style, with Venetian windows and a small Doric entrance.
It contains some of the finest internal plasterwork in the City. The stucco work on the ceiling is the work of a Waterford student of the Francini Brothers.
It is open to the public during normal hospital visiting hours.
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