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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....

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...

The Market House forms the large centerpiece of the town square in from of Hillsborough Castle. It was first built around 1760 as a two-storey structure with an archway running through the centre from east to west. In 1810 the present north and south side wings were added, one to provide a courtroom and the other a market hall, and at the same time a new granite plinth, various decorations as well as a new clock and bell, were provided....

A the north east corner, the Sovereign's House contains the museum of the Royal Irish Fusiliers. It was built in 1810 of stone left over from the courthouse. On the west side, and extravagant small church with a campanile is a gospel hall of 1884....

Moore Hall are the ruins of a mansion that once belong to the Moore Family. Their son was George Moore a famous Irish writer, and he also established the Abbet Theatre.
The house was built in 1795 and was destroyed in 1923 by a masssive fire. It was never rebuilt again. The house still stands in ruins as a memorial to the Moore family, and as a commeriation to Lough Cara and its surrounding areas....

Built during the 1820's for William Wallace Legge, a prominent Belfast merchant, the house has stood in lands little changed for over a century and a half. The estate that was planted shortly after the house was built, now supports a heritage of magnificent mature trees and woodland.

The house was presented to the City in 1946 by William Barnett. Leased to the National trust in early 1970's, many visitors have fond memories spent in the house and grounds. It was almost totally destroyed...

A focal point of the northern midlands where the provinces of Leinster, Ulster and Connaught all converge, Longford, where history and literature, tragedy and triumph are all woven together, takes its name from the ancient stronghold of the O'Farrell family (Long Fort - Fort of the O'Farrells). Bordered to the West by the majestic River Shannon, Longford is a county of rolling plains and picturesque stretches of water. The highest point of the county, Cairn Hill, is only 279 m high, but from...

A modest gentleman farmer's residence with aspirations of grandeur. Originally a seventeenth-century house, it was enlarged with a hotch-potch of extensions at various times between 1780 and 1810....

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....

The Mansion House is the official residence of the Lord Mayor of Dublin. City Government has existed in Dublin since 1172 and the Mansion House has been the centre of Dublin's civic hospitality since 1715.
A splendid building, the Mansion House boasts many fine rooms and features and has established for itself a reputation of quality to compare with other renowned Dublin attractions, such as Trinity College, the National Art Gallery and City Hall.

On the 25th April 1715, Du...