Fitzgeralds Park

This two-storied house was worked by Charles Beamish, a brewer c1845 at the cost of £4,000.00 aground he had gotten from the Duke of Devonshire.

Not long after its realization, Mr. Beamish had the grounds bound to wind up Fitzgerald's Park laid out with a grouping of hedges and trees, and in light of their thickness the grounds wound up known as "The Strawberries" and the house "The Shrubbery".

In 1886 the house transformed into the home of the Bon Secours Sisters. In the mid-1880's is transformed into a private house again in the obligation regarding. Barry J. Sheehan J. P. who was Mayor of Cork in 1877 and 1884.

In 1897 the house transformed into the home of Mr. Cornelius Desmond a person from the Corporation until the point that he sold it to the Incorporated Cork International Association in 1901 for £3,300.

In the midst of the Exhibition held in 1902/03, the Committee used the house for going to dignitaries which included King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra.