Functioning as a curated public meeting space, TEST SITE plays a pivotal role in facilitating discussions, workshops, and social activities. The project works at the intersection of art, architecture and ecology.

The site is part of a complex of vacant Cork city centre sites including the R.H.
Parker & Sons / Cork Timber, Slate & Cement Co. former timber yard and sawmill.

The sites are significant because of the architectural structures and ecological diversity that they contain.
The ‘island site’ at Kyrl’s Quay, historically a foreshore, was the docking point for small cargo ships.

The foreshore lay just outside the original city walls which cut through the abandoned sawmill site. Historically Kyrl’s/Kerl’s Quay was also named
Timber Quay linking this part of the city to timber trade and industry.