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Cork City's Main Shopping area' s include
shopping on Patrick Street, Princes Street,
Oliver Plunkett Street, and the North Main
Street. The large shopping centre's in Cork City
include Merchant's Quay Shopping Centre, Paul
Street Shopping Centre, French Church Street, North Main Street
Shopping Centre, and the English Market.
Patrick Street is Cork City's longest
shopping street and Princes Street is
where you will find access to the English
Market. MacCurtain Street is has a range of
shops from Antiques, Cafés and Musical
Instruments shop's including Crowley's Music
Centre shop where the renowned guitarist Rory
Gallagher purchased his trademark 1961 Fender
Stratocaster Guitar.
MacCurtain Street was renowned in olden
times by those sweet toothed shoppers where they
could purchase the renowned 'Turkish Delight'
sweet from Hadji Bey's shop from the 1900's, a
retail until on the ground floor of the
Metropole Hotel, the shop closed in the 1980's.
When visiting the Metropole Hotel today, the bay
window area of the Cork City Hotel was where the
sweet shop existed.
French Church Street has a number of
little shops hidden away, ranging from clothes,
shoes, chocolate shops and cafés with
heated outside seating for some of the cafés
there is always a buzz around. The area around
Paul Street, Carey's Lane and French Church
Street being known as the Huguenot Quarter
where you can find a walled Huguenot graveyard,
with the Huguenot history being tied to Cork
from the 1700's, when they fled to Cork from
France and worked in the textile area and also
in manufacture of linen and silk and property
development.
Cornmarket Street, this area known as the
Coal Quay has a history of street trading
in Cork from the late 1800's, where much of Cork
City citizen's purchased their goods.
Cornmarket Street was home to St Peter's Market
which opened as a food market in olden times,
today it is a lively bar and restaurant, much of
this area has since been newly developed for
apartments and a shopping unit which branches
out also onto Paul Street. Presently, Saturday
morning on Cornmarket Street still proves to be
a favourite with street traders in this area.
Cornmarket Street or the Coal Quay as the name
suggests this area was once a quay, before this
area where the channel from the River Lee flows,
was built over to the present day Cornmarket
Street.
Cork's Opera Lane is a fine example of a
new shopping area blending in with the old
historic buildings of Cork such as Crawford Art
Gallery and the Queen Anne house on Emmet Place.
Here in Opera Lane you will find a number of
well know high street shops, such as H&M,
Topshop, Gap, Topman, Next, River Island,
Kuyichi, New Look, Tommy Hilfiger and more.
Cork's English Market is a delight, the
backbone of Cork's history since the 1700's, one
of the oldest markets of its kind, supplying the
people of Cork and its Visitors, a covered
market area in Cork City. The English
Market in Cork has a range of wonderful
stalls for you to browse such as fresh meat,
fish, poultry, fresh fruit and vegetables, many
local cheese's, smoked salmon, olives, spices,
confectionary and Cork's traditional Tripe and
Drisheen stall, French soaps, Lavender,
Flowers, Wool, Wine, Champagne and many more
delights. Having enjoyed browsing the many
stalls in the English Market stop and enjoy a
coffee and some people watching in one of the
wonderful Café's, Coffee Docks in the English
Market and enjoy some delectable chocolates at
the same time! The English Market was visited by
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip on a great
Summer's day in May of 2011, where she enjoyed a
walk through the stalls of this old Irish
market. The English Market can be accessed from
either Princes Street, Patrick Street, Oliver
Plunkett Street or the Grand Parade.
Stretching out a little from
Cork City are many more of Cork's large shopping centres
in Blackpool and Mahon, Douglas and Carrigaline,
Bishopstown and Wilton and Midleton.
Map of Cork's Shopping
Centre's
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Map of County Cork's
Shopping Centre's
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