plaque · Ireland

Richard Dowden (Richard)

1794-1861. Co-founder of the temperance movement, poet and botanist. Mayor of Cork in 1845. Managed Jenning's soda-water factory which stood near here.

Inscription drawn from imported open data, awaiting original TributeLegacy editorial.

Source: OpenStreetMap. Geographic data via OpenStreetMap.

Nearby locations in Ireland

Rory Gallagher Monument
Location details from OpenStreetMap
0 km away
Corporation of Cork Labours Dwellings. This stone was laid by the Right Honourable Ald. Sir Daniel Hegarty J.P. (first) Lord Mayor of Cork N
Location details from OpenStreetMap
0.1 km away
W.H. Crawford
Location details from OpenStreetMap
0.1 km away
OPERA LANE Formerly Faulkner's Lane It was named after the Faulkner Family who owned and operated a bank from the lane in the late 1700s
Location details from OpenStreetMap
0.1 km away

Browse all memorials in Ireland

Data sources

Location records are drawn from open, licence-clean datasets, kept here with attribution and gratitude to the people who maintain them.

Open Plaques, dedicated to the public domain (CC0). See openplaques.org.
Wikidata, available under the CC0 1.0 Universal dedication.
Historic England, National Heritage List for England, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. War memorial records are drawn from open community datasets (OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, NHLE) — never from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, which is excluded.

Editorial descriptions, photography and tribute links are original TributeLegacy work, layered on top of the open data.