{"id":86,"date":"2012-10-16T10:21:01","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T10:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamiehanrahandesign.com\/christchurch\/?page_id=86"},"modified":"2021-07-09T10:46:43","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T10:46:43","slug":"christchurch-in-early-maps","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/triskelartscentre.ie\/christchurch\/christchurch-history\/christchurch-in-early-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Christchurch in Early Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christchurch is identifiable from the earliest surviving map of Cork City \u2013 A Plan of Cork AD 1545 (also called the \u2018Tower of London Map\u2019 as this is the place where it was originally held). The map shows the walled city surrounded by marshes and a central waterway between the two islands of South and North Main Street connected by a bridge. The South and North Gate bridges are also identifiable.<\/p>\n

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Cork 1545, Tower of London Map<\/p><\/div>\n

Christchurch is also clearly marked on the medieval map Pacata Hibernia (circa 1587) along with St Peter\u2019s Church. The medieval walled city of Cork in the Pacata Hibernia map is an impressive elliptical area characterized by towers, battlements and crenulations. There were fortified gates at the locations of the present day North and South gate bridges.<\/p>\n

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Pacata Hibernia, c 1583<\/p><\/div>\n

The Hardiman Map of 1601 depicts Christchurch as a large church consisting of a nave with north and south aisles and a square tower at the west end.<\/p>\n

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Hardiman Map 1585-1600<\/p><\/div>\n

Cork City Library has more information on these and other historic maps of Cork on their Cork Past and Present website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christchurch is identifiable from the earliest surviving map of Cork City \u2013 A Plan of Cork AD 1545 (also called the \u2018Tower of London Map\u2019 as this is the place where it was originally held). The map shows the walled city surrounded by marshes and a central waterway between the two islands of South and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":11,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-86","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triskelartscentre.ie\/christchurch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triskelartscentre.ie\/christchurch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triskelartscentre.ie\/christchurch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triskelartscentre.ie\/christchurch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triskelartscentre.ie\/christchurch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/triskelartscentre.ie\/christchurch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1081,"href":"https:\/\/triskelartscentre.ie\/christchurch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86\/revisions\/1081"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triskelartscentre.ie\/christchurch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triskelartscentre.ie\/christchurch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}