Survey of Cork City Wall by Jehosephat Huleatt

Repository: Cork City and County Archives

Identity Statement

TitleSurvey of Cork City Wall by Jehosephat Huleatt
Archive ReferenceIE CCCA/SM646
Web Link to this Entryhttps://iar.ie/archive/survey-cork-city-wall-by-jehoseph-hulet
Creation Dates1733
Extent Medium8pp

Context

Creator(s): Huleatt, Jehosephat

  • Administrative History ↴

    Overseer of public works for Cork Corporation/Cork City, c.1730s - ?1756/1757. Possibly a relation of James Huleatt, Mayor of Cork in 1731. Died or out of office by 1757. Succeeded in office by Hugh Taylor, Feb. 1757.
  • Archival History ↴

    Donated to Archives in 1991 by P. Humphries
  • Immediate Source Acquisition ↴

    Donation

Content & Structure

  • Scope & Content: Huleatt, Jehosephat ↴

    MSS. ‘Copy of the Survey of the Town Walls’, by Jehosaphat Huleatt, Overseer of public works. ‘An exact return as possible I could make of the Town Walls of the Citty of Cork August 7th 1733’. Contemporary copy giving written details of properties encroaching on the Cork City wall, such as; North Gate, 76 feet 6 inches; James Dennis and father to the front of their yard, 229 feet; ‘Alderman Cramer the whole built upon on the river side
    with a slip and gate the wall standing’, 90 feet; ‘Widow Riggs a large door with a window through the wall’, 44 feet; Peters Church steeple on the wall, 20 feet 9 inches. In total about 100 properties and property owners listed. (Note: textual information only, there is no map or drawing attached).

  • Appraisal Destruction ↴

    Permanent Retention
  • Arrangement ↴

    1 item – no arrangement applicable

Conditions of Access & Use

Access Conditions Open by appointment to those holding a current readers ticket
Conditions Governing ReproductionSubject to rules governing reproduction of records of CCCA
Creation Dates1733
Extent Medium8pp
Material Language ScriptEnglish
Finding Aids Item level description Archive Web Link →

Allied Materials

Related MaterialCCCA: Council Book of the Corporation of Cork, R.Caulfield (1876)

Descriptive Control Area

Archivist NoteBrian McGee
Rules/ConventionsISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description. 2nd ed. Ottowa: International Council on Archives, 2000.
Date of Descriptions40878