More about Cornmarket
This area was formerly known as 'Hell'. As one source remembers 'This was certainly a very profane and unseemly soubriquet, to give to a place that adjoined a Cathedral whose name was Christ Church; and my young mind, when I first entered there, was struck with its unseemliness. Yes; and more especially, when over the arched entrance there was pointed out to me the very image of the devil, carved in oak'. Its fame as a peculiar spot spread across Europe and the Scottish poet Robbie Burns even wrote of it '‘But this that I am gean to tell, / Which lately on a night befell / Is just as true as the dell’s in hell, / Or Dublin city.’
