Merrion Square: view of south side from middle of square

Mount Street Upper: detail of stepped crescent

North Great George's Street: view towards Belvedere House

Selection of 35mm slides from the collection of the School of Art History and Cultural Policy, focusing on the domestic architecture of eighteenth-century Dublin.

Molesworth Street: doorcase

Fitzwilliam Street Upper: view towards Leeson Street

Ely Place, Ely House

Development of Fitzwilliam (now Pembroke) estate instigated by 6th Viscount Fitzwilliam from 1752. Fitzwilliam Place developed in tandem with E and S sides of Fitzwilliam Square.

Mountpleasant Square lies south of the grand canal, and was completed by 1830. The principal developers were Solomon Williams and Terence Dolan.

Development of Fitzwilliam (now Pembroke) estate instigated by 6th Viscount Fitzwilliam from 1752. Probably no. 41 Merrion Square East.

Mountpleasant Square lies south of the grand canal, and was completed by 1830. The principal developers were Solomon Williams and Terence Dolan.

Development of Fitzwilliam (now Pembroke) estate instigated by 6th Viscount Fitzwilliam from 1752.

Part for Hatch Street approved by the Wide Streets Commissioners in 1791. The north side of the street built between 1810-37.

Development of Fitzwilliam (now Pembroke) estate instigated by 6th Viscount Fitzwilliam from 1752. Fitzwilliam Place developed in tandem with E and S sides of Fitzwilliam Square.

Part of the Fitzwilliam (now Pembroke) estate instigated by 6th Viscount Fitzwilliam from 1752. Leases for Herbert Place date from 1791. Herbert Street was laid out by Sydney Herbert from the early 1830s.

Part of Baggot Street planned in 1780s and approved by the Wide Streets Commissioners in 1791.

Part of the Fitzwilliam (now Pembroke) estate instigated by 6th Viscount Fitzwilliam from 1752. Leases for Herbert Place date from 1791. Herbert Street was laid out by Sydney Herbert from the early 1830s.

Laid out in 1768 by the developer Gustavus Hume. With Ely Place, it forms a residential enclave adjacent to St. Stephen's Green.

Development of Fitzwilliam (now Pembroke) estate instigated by 6th Viscount Fitzwilliam from 1752. The park area was enclosed by an Act of Parliament in 1791.

Development of Fitzwilliam (now Pembroke) estate instigated by 6th Viscount Fitzwilliam from 1752. Houses on Fitzwilliam Street Upper are predominantly early C19. Probably no. 40 Fitzwillam Street Upper. Nos. 34-41 were built in the early 1830s by Benjamin Norwood.

Parnell Square: doorcase

Mountpleasant Square lies south of the grand canal, and was completed by 1830. The principal developers were Solomon Williams and Terence Dolan.

Mountpleasant Square lies south of the grand canal, and was completed by 1830. The principal developers were Solomon Williams and Terence Dolan. These houses were among the first built as part of the original Mount Pleasant Crescent.

Mountpleasant Square lies south of the grand canal, and was completed by 1830. The principal developers were Solomon Williams and Terence Dolan.