The Granary

Formerly known as Mardyke Warehouse

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This site used to be a marshland called Mardyke, where local sportsmen came to shoot snipe.
In the late 18th century, Philip John Roche bought the land and built a large grain storehouse that he named the Mardyke Warehouse, now known as the Granary.
The building was one of the first multi-storey constructions in Limerick city, and exported a huge quantity of flax, cereals and seeds. Roche was known as a charitable man, who would often give grain to the starving people of the city.
In the 1980s the building was redeveloped as a mixed-use scheme housing Limerick City Library as well as a music venue and a restaurant. It is currently not in use.
It has been used as a venue for multiple editions of EVA, and was one of twelve listed venues for the 20th edition in 1996, curated by Guy Tortosa (b. 1961, France) and titled After the Future.
Here, Susan Philipsz (b. 1965, UK) presented Two Part Harmony (1996), a site-responsive sound installation in the stairway. The audio work consisted of two notes sung by the artist, played in intermittent bursts through the course of the day; the higher note played through a speaker situated at the upper floor stairway, while the lower note played through a speaker at ground level.