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Once one of the most elegant of Dublin's squares, Mountjoy Square suffered severely from neglect and is now in the process of restoration.
It was developed between 1792 and 1818 and named after the man who planned it, Luke Gardiner, the first Viscount ofMountjoy.
Michael Stapleton and Charles Thorp were among the designers and some of the houses have very fine plasterwork....

Henrietta Street was one of the first Georgian developments in the city and for many years the most fashionable.
Dating from 1720, it was laid out by the first Luke Gardiner, who had his own house here at No 10. Gardiner's residence and No 9 next door are now occupied by a convent.
If you can mentally exclude the parked cars it is easy to imagine this beautiful street as it was in its heyday....

Although located within a few miles of Dublin's advancing urban sprawl, Newbridge House still manages to preserve its character of a secluded eighteenth century gentleman's residence set in a wooded demesne....

Built in 1706, it stands behind a limestone arch in a quiet cobbled yard. The building is the oldest guildhall in Ireland and was used by various trade groups including hosiers, saddlers and barber-surgeons as well as tailors.

It also hosted many political meetings - Wolfe tone addressed a public United Irishmen rally here before the 1798 rebellion. The building closed in the early 1960's due to neglect, but a successful appeal by Desmond Guinness saw the hall completely refurbish...

The Custom House, designed by the renowned James Gandon, was completed in 1791 and is one of Dublin's finest heritage buildings. It has played a unique role in Dublin's social, economic and political history over the past 200 years.

The Visitor Centre is located in and around the Dome or Clocktower area which contains the most important interior features to have survived the destruction of the building by fire in 1921, during the War of Independence.

The Centre includes a Gando...

Leinster House, the seat of Dail Eireann (House of Representatives) and Seanad Eireann (The Senate), which together with the President constitute the Oireachtas (National Parliament), was erected in 1745 from designs by Richard Castle.

On non sitting days, visitors should apply at the Kildare Street entrance. When either house is sitting visitors should arrange with a member of the house which they wish to visit to obtain a visitors admission card. Further information can be obtaine...

At Nos 80-81 St Stephen's Green is Iveagh House, now the Department of Foreign Affairs, which was presented to the state by the Earl of Iveagh, head of the Guinness family....

No 8 Ely Place is one of the city's finest Georgian mansions, with a magnificent staircase and Adam decoration. The site of Oliver Gogarty's house at No 25 is now occupied by the Royal Hibernian Academy's, now Gallagher Gallery. The RHA has exhibited or given membership to almost every Irish artist of distinction since it was founded a century and a half ago....