Merrion Square: view of south side


Development of Fitzwilliam (now Pembroke) estate instigated by 6th Viscount Fitzwilliam from 1752. Leases for the south side were issued from 1786.

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Merrion Square: view of east side


Development of Fitzwilliam (now Pembroke) estate instigated by 6th Viscount Fitzwilliam from 1752. Leases for the east side were issued from 1786.

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Ely Place: Ely House


Residence of Henry Loftus, 3rd Earl of Ely. Purchased in 1770 from the developer Gustavus Hume.

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Merrion Square: view of north side


Development of Fitzwilliam (now Pembroke) estate instigated by 6th Viscount Fitzwilliam from 1752. The relatively homogenous elevations belie the speculative and piecemeal nature of construction.

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Merrion Square: view of north side from National Gallery of Ireland


Development of Fitzwilliam (now Pembroke) estate instigated by 6th Viscount Fitzwilliam from 1752. The relatively homogenous elevations belie the speculative and piecemeal nature of construction.

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Merrion Square, No. 1: ground storey and doorcase


Development of Fitzwilliam (now Pembroke) estate instigated by 6th Viscount Fitzwilliam from 1752. Nos. 1-3 were built in 1762-65 by John Wilson for Thomas Keating. No. 1 was the home of Sir William Wilde from 1855.

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Mount Street Upper: detail of stepped crescent


Part of the Fitzwilliam (now Pembroke) estate instigated by 6th Viscount Fitzwilliam from 1752. Mount Street Upper laid out c1789, but principally built between 1829-31. The houses here step back forming a type of crude crescent-shaped plan.

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Mountjoy Square: view of north side looking east


Part of the extensive Gardiner Estate instigated by Luke Gardiner in the 1720s. Mountjoy Square first planned and laid out in 1787. Building began in 1789.

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Parnell Square East: general view


Parnell Square East: general view

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Parnell Square West: general view


Plots leased here from 1758.

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Leeson Street Lower: view of north side


Late Georgian terraces, largely built post 1800.

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Fitzwilliam Square: view of north side looking westwards


Development of Fitzwilliam (now Pembroke) estate instigated by 6th Viscount Fitzwilliam from 1752. Fitzwilliam Square laid out in 1791 by the surveyors John and Pat Roe. The north side was the first to be built on.

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Fitzwilliam Square: view of north side looking towards Fitzwilliam Square East


Development of Fitzwilliam (now Pembroke) estate instigated by 6th Viscount Fitzwilliam from 1752. Fitzwilliam Square laid out in 1791 by the surveyors John and Pat Roe. The north side was the first to be built on.

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Merrion Square: view of north side


Development of Fitzwilliam (now Pembroke) estate instigated by 6th Viscount Fitzwilliam from 1752. The relatively homogenous elevations belie the speculative and piecemeal nature of construction.

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North Great George's Street: view towards Belvedere House


North Great George's Street was laid out in 1767 on part of the Mount Eccles estate. The vista is closed by Belvedere House, Great Denmark Street, completed in 1786 by George Augustus Rochfort, 2nd Earl of Belvedere.

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Merrion Square: view of north side from middle of square


Development of Fitzwilliam (now Pembroke) estate instigated by 6th Viscount Fitzwilliam from 1752. The relatively homogenous elevations belie the speculative and piecemeal nature of construction. Includes a view of the Gasometer (taken down c1993).

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Merrion Square: view of south side from middle of square


Development of Fitzwilliam (now Pembroke) estate instigated by 6th Viscount Fitzwilliam from 1752. Leases for the south side were issued from 1786.

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Merrion Square: view of south east corner


Development of Fitzwilliam (now Pembroke) estate instigated by 6th Viscount Fitzwilliam from 1752. Leases for the south side were issued from 1786.

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Mount Street Upper: view towards St Stephen's Church


Part of the Fitzwilliam (now Pembroke) estate instigated by 6th Viscount Fitzwilliam from 1752. Mount Street Upper laid out c1789, but principally built between 1829-31. St Stephen's Church (also known as the Pepper Canister), designed in 1824 by John Bowden, terminates the vista from Merrion Square.

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Fownes Street: general view


General streetscape including early C18 building fabric.

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Merrion Square: view of west side


Development of Fitzwilliam (now Pembroke) estate instigated by 6th Viscount Fitzwilliam from 1752. A number of houses on the west side built before 1756.

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Pembroke Street: house façades


Pembroke street, nos. 19-20. Part of the Fitzwilliam (now Pembroke) estate instigated by 6th Viscount Fitzwilliam from 1752. Pembroke Street Upper laid out c1820.

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Pembroke Street Upper: view from Leeson Street Lower


Part of the Fitzwilliam (now Pembroke) estate instigated by 6th Viscount Fitzwilliam from 1752. Pembroke Street Upper laid out c1820.

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Merrion Square: basement areas along south side


Development of Fitzwilliam (now Pembroke) estate instigated by 6th Viscount Fitzwilliam from 1752. Leases for the south side were issued from 1786.

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