placenamesEvergreen
An Bóthar Síorghlas
Evergreen’s streets record the growth of Cork’s southern suburbs, from a nineteenth-century convent chapel to new housing and schools in the interwar years.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- An Bóthar Síorghlas · Irish · main form
- Evergreen · English · main form
Place & story
Housing planned for Evergreen
Evergreen formed part of Cork Corporation's expanding southern housing programme during the 1920s. Historian Kieran McCarthy identifies a Cork Examiner editorial of November 1927 which reported a proposed scheme of 115 houses at Evergreen and Curragh Road. The intended dwellings contained four or five rooms and were arranged in groups of two or three. The report documents what was contemplated at that stage, alongside the nearby Capwell housing development. [2]
The Ursuline chapel
On Evergreen Street, the Ursuline convent chapel dates from around 1855. Sandstone walls and contrasting limestone details frame its pointed openings, while a four-lobed rose window marks the southern gable. The chancel is three-sided, and a tower carries a copper-roofed spire. The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage identifies the chapel's surviving fabric and its place within the larger convent complex as important features. [3]
Schools for a growing suburb
Two primary schools opened on Evergreen Road on 12 September 1938, serving boys and girls separately under the Presentation Brothers and Sisters. Their site was donated by the Reverend Sir John O'Connell, and the architect was Dominic M. O'Connor. Bishop Daniel Cohalan blessed the buildings after Mass at nearby Christ the King. In 2011 the two schools amalgamated as the co-educational Bunscoil Chríost Rí. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Cork
- Civil parish
- Saint Nicholas
- Coordinates
- 51.88709, -8.46599
- Logainm ID
- 1417124 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Evergreen. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- OurCityOurTown,CapwellHousing,8October2026 · Kieran McCarthy
- UrsulineConventchapel,20514809 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- TheCorkcityschoolsbuiltwithhelpfromaknight,2March2025 · Donal O’Keeffe,interview with historian Liam ÓhUigín
- Church of Christ the King near Evergreen, Cork, as photographed in 2008 illustration: based on a Christ The King by Ian Paterson. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-08-17. How this page was prepared.