This was the single largest piece of urban renewal in Edwardian Dublin, and was commissioned by the Earl of Iveagh to clean up the slums that surrounded St Patrick’s Cathedral of which he was funding the restoration.
St Patrick’s Cathedral is traditionally the site of a holy well used by St Patrick for baptisms and a church was established here as early as the late fifth century –
The hotel was one of five operated between Dublin and the Shannon and opened in 1807 and operated until 1860 despite passenger services being stopped in 1852.
Bank dating from the early twentieth century constructed in a restrained classical style for the Provincial Bank.
Leading from College Green to O’Connell street and named after John Fane, tenth Earl of Westmoreland and Lord Lieutenant 1790-94. One of the last streets to be laid out by the Wide Streets Commissioners,
Built as the Pearl Life Assurance building, it was gutted and merged into one large development in the late 1990s.
Fine ornate corner public house with much of its original interior detail intact. Although conservation and restoration can sometimes get in the way of charm,
The house built for Richard Wingfield, the third Viscount Powerscourt was designed by Richard Cassels. It was built at a cost of £80,000 in 1771-4.
On an important corner site adjoining the Bank of Ireland in College Green, this office building is curiously un-noticeable.
Designed as the Cramer Wood Music Store, this building has fine polychromatic brickwork and stone trimmings.
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