1760 – Dining Hall, Trinity College Dublin
In the 1740s Richard Cassels designed and built a Dining Hall on this site replacing an earlier structure.
In the 1740s Richard Cassels designed and built a Dining Hall on this site replacing an earlier structure.
Named after the Fitzwilliam family, Earls of Merrion, who developed this land as part of their great estate on the southside of the Liffey.
Robert West the stuccodore who designed many of the finest interiors in the city lived at No.
This former windmill was once used to power the Roe Distillary on Thomas Street in Dublin.
George Roe and Company had its beginning in 1757 when Peter Roe bought a small distillery on Thomas Street in Dublin.
The Provost is the head of Trinity College and accordingly a sumptuous residence was provided. Originally the position was held until death with the next incumbent being elected by the fellows of the college.
Named after Denzille Holles (1597-1681), Earl of Clare (in Suffolk, not Ireland). The details of Dublin’s Georgian doorways varies greatly from street to street and even from doorway to doorway within the same street.
Beside the shop of Edward Butler, this antiques shop has a fine original shop façade. In 1850, this premises was owned by D.Breen who was described as a “Life Insurance Company”
No 8 Dawson Street is a very fine mansion house with considerable surviving mid eighteenth century joinery and decorative plasterwork that has been well maintained.
The former Royal Hibernian Hotel dated back to 1751 as a pair of buildings making up a coaching inn, making it one of the country’s first hotels.
Early home of the Royal Irish Academy, which had some minor work by Richard Johnston, and internal stuccowork by Charles Thorp.