Does Collins Lane, Cork City, still exist?

[Keith Sherwood]

Hi again, Everyone,
Can anyone with local knowledge tell me whether Collins Lane, Cork City, still exists today.  In the 1911 Census it was in the Urban District 4, I believe...
Many thanks, keith

[mazzm]

I checked an old map of Cork and Collins Lane used to be located just off Shandon St, off of Fair Lane.  I googled the area and Fair Lane is now Fair St and all of the smaller lanes no longer exist.

[Keith Sherwood]

Mazzm,
Thanks so much for doing that for me!  I wonder when the clearance of those lanes took place...
Regards, keith

[mazzm]

Hi Keith,

I'm not sure when the clearance took place.  There was a slum clearance between 1920 and 1940 so I would assume it took place during those years.  Take a look at this website and you may be able to get more information. You will find the maps of Cork there as well. http://www.corkpastandpresent.com/history/historyofcorkcity/early20thcentury/slumclearance/

I have also seen somewhere else that the clearance continued until 1960, not sure how accurate that is.
Mary

[Keith Sherwood]

Mary,
Many thanks again for this, and that interesting link.  I reckon the slum clearance must have seen the end of Collins Lane and much of the neighbourhood...
keith
NB was interested to see that the Gurranabraher estate was built as a result of this clearance in the 1920's.  I imagine those residents displaced would have been rehoused in the new estates...

[mazzm]

Hi Keith,

I would think that most of the people displaced would have been reassigned new corporation houses in the Gurranabraher area. My mother just told me that her grandmother lived on Fair Lane:) She couldn't remember when the area was cleared though, she was born in 1926.

Mary

[Keith Sherwood]

Mary,
Thanks again for that...An individual from the family I am looking into was born in Collins Lane in 1928 - I have his birth certificate - but I am not sure whether his younger siblings would have been born there after that date, or whether by then the family home had been demolished and they'd been reassigned somewhere on the newly-built Gurranabraher estate...
regards, keith

[Keith Sherwood]

Mary,
Sorry to be so persistent, but I've just received a 1912 wedding certificate for this same family, and the addresses for bride and groom are given as Hillgrove Lane and Walshs (sic) Lane.  As both locations are termed as "Lanes", would it be true that both were also swept away in the Cork City clearances that you describe earlier in this thread...?
Very best wishes, keith

[shanew147]

There is currently a Hillgrove lane in Cork City - not certain it's the same one as the 1912 - see google map : Hillgrove Lane, Cork - Google Map

I dont see anywhere named Walsh's Lane - but there is a location named Walsh's Square


Shane