Construction work on the Church of the Ascension at Gurranabraher in Cork city is almost complete.
Gurranabraher (In Irish Garrán na mBráthar) is a residential suburb on the northside of Cork city. Its parish church, the Church of the Ascension was constructed from 1953 to 1955.
Situated on a hill overlooking Cork city this cruciform Roman Catholic church was designed by JR Boyd Barrett and was the first of the five churches built in Cork by Bishop Corneilus Lucey in the 1950s. Each of these 'Rosary churches' were named after the Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary.
Today the church’s three-stage tower is completed as its cross is hoisted into place. Weighing two tons and measuring four and a half metres in length with a span of almost three metres, it will be illuminated at night.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 25 October 1962. This footage is without sound.
