Elizabeth Fort

The building was the home to the Royal Cork Yacht Club for over a century until the point that they moved to Crosshaven for better moorings.

It was sold to University College Cork in 1969. UCC proposed to set up a marine research concentrate, yet this game plan was never recognized and over the going with twenty years the building fell into feebleness and wound up dismissed.

In 1988 the Old Yacht Club was acquired by Sirius Commemoration Ltd., a purposeful get-together of concerned neighborhood people, formed to buy, restore and make practices suitable to the building.

Social event vows began immediately and inside of two years, enough had been raised for modifying endeavors to begin.

These fundamental resources were exhausted in 1995, however by adequately then work had been improved the situation the center to open and the skilled worker's residency program could begin.