Berwick Fountain – Cork

The historic Berwick Fountain, a Victorian-era public monument in Cork City, has been beautifully revitalised with a custom architectural lighting solution by the Fantasy Lights team. Designed by Sir John Benson and completed in 1860, the fountain is a striking example of 19th-century civic design. Its limestone base, square plan with circular side projections, and ornate central structure featuring entwined dolphins across three tiers, make it one of Cork’s most recognisable features.

Supervised by Cork City Council Architects Department, careful conservation intervention was carried out on the almost 160-year-old fountain over the summer, with the purpose of cleaning, treating and renovating all of its stonework, darkened by time and atmospheric agents. Cork City Council also decided to illuminate this famous historic fountain with a colour changing RGBW LED system, that, beside an almost infinite range of shades, could also allow a white light illumination.

The fountain is now lit up, for the first time in years, through a professional LED lighting system, which has been installed by Cork City Council plant and machinery team under supervision of and according to the lighting design conceived by Gabriel Byrne, CEO at Fantasy Lights Group. Located beside Bishop Lucey Park, Berwick Fountain required a computerized management of its brand new LED lighting system, in order to harmonise its layout with the projected colour changing RGBW illumination of the neighbouring park.