Irish Heritage Site to Occupy Five Acres of Irishtown Bend Park

With historic artifacts unearthed during excavation on display,"this will be the largest public place by far that celebrates the Irish in this place and in Cleveland"

When the 25 acres of the land set to be Ohio City's Irishtown Bend Park were excavated last summer, an archeological team hit apparent historical gold.were recovered, and later preserved accordingly: from drinkware to housing frames, coal cellars to Celtic pipes, and a large cistern. It was unclear, at the time, how these relics would be properly stored, or, if incorporated into the park, exactly how they would mesh with a larger design.

Cataffa's vision, shown in a slew of renderings released this week, depict an outdoor museum, rust-colored and industrial brown, that seems to mesh nicely into the actual park aspect of the hillside. To acccomplish that, he's been collaborating with an Irish Heritage Committee, spearheaded by Irish Honorary Consul General Mark Owens and Margaret Lynch, the executive director of the Irish American Archives Society.

Along with the actual foundations from a coal dock hoisting rig, used as a kind of place marker along the river's edge, the park will also include non-abstract historical homages: a rust-colored bird blind etched with a nod to Cleveland's coal history, and a tabletop street grid that shows how folks might've navigated the original Irishtown.

Source: Real Estate Daily Report (realestatedailyreport.net)

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