1790 – Corner, Capel Street, Dublin
Sadly lying derelict, this prime city site looks just as it did when Malton did his view of Essex Bridge with all its original glazing bars complete.
Capel Street Dublin
This is named after the family of the Lord Lieutenant of 1672-77, Arthur Capel, Earl of Essex. It was laid out in the late seventeenth century by Humphrey Jervis as a prestigious residential street but by 1800 the street had become one of the city’s primary commercial thoroughfares.
1867 – Design for Hugh Moore & Co., Capel St., Dublin
Architect: William Fogerty
Unbuilt proposal for a warehouse for a wholesale druggist, Hugh Moore & Co., for Capel Street on the site of the Scot’s church.
1867 – Nealons, Capel Street, Dublin
Architect: Charles Geoghegan
Fine Victorian exterior built by Charles Geoghegan as a public house in the late 19th century.
1870 – Boland’s Bakery, 133-136 Capel Street, Dublin
Architect: Charles Geoghegan
Designed as a bakery for Patrick Boland and incorporating an earlier Presbyterian church in Mary’s Abbey (a laneway to the rear).
1870 – J. Edmondson & Co, Ironmongers, Nos. 33-36 Capel Street, Dublin
Originally a terrace of three houses built circa 1770 – two of which were amalgamated in the 1870s into a retail unit for J.
1871 – Kerr & Sons, Nos. 114-115 Capel Street, Dublin
Architect: John McCurdy
Fine Victorian warehouse in brick with stucco decoration. In use today as a antiques gallery. “The structure externally presents a good block of building artistically rendered,
1899 – Louis Copeland, Nos. 40-41 Capel Street, Dublin
Architect: Kaye-Parry & Ross
Originally built as a bank, a branch of the Provincial Bank, hence the unusual shopfront,
1915 – No.31 Capel Street, Dublin
Architect: George L. O’Connor
Existing building adapted in 1915 by O’Connor by remodelling the ground and first floor facade to provide a new commercial unit.
1915 – Nos. 148-149 Capel Street, Dublin
Architect: George L. O’Connor
Commercial building with two shop units, unfortunate shop fronts.
2001 – McNamara Construction, Capel Street, Dublin
Architect: Grafton Architects
Infill building on rear lane to Ormonde Quay, with a range of materials including rubble stone,
