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Thomas Crosbie Holdings, Cork

Architect: William G. Murray
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Italianate plazzo built for the Provincial Bank by William G. Murray. The design may be derived from his unsuccessful design for Cork City Hall of the previous year. The building has a rusticated ground level with a piano nobile with Corinthian columns. The interior has a galleried banking hall with a coved ceiling and central lantern. Was a branch of Allied Irish Banks after a series of mergers in the 1960s, now the headquarters of the Thomas Crosbie Holdings group of newspapers.