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Oliver Bond flats, also known as Oliver Bond House, is a group of blocks of flats in the Liberties area of Dublin, Ireland. [1] They were designed by Herbert George Simms and built in 1936. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] They are named after Oliver Bond , a member of the Society of United Irishmen .
Countess Markiewicz House is a flats complex named after Countess Constance Markievicz in Dublin 2, Ireland. [1] It was designed by Herbert George Simms in an art deco style and was constructed between 1934 and 1936.
The area was however still shown as mainly open land on Charles Brooking's Map of Dublin of 1728. In the early 1750s, Sir Christopher Dominick's widow and son of the same name let lots to various developers and builders along what is today Dominick Street Lower. [ 3 ]
The Italian Quarter (Irish: An Ceathrú Iodálach) is an unofficially-named private development on the north bank of the River Liffey in central Dublin, Ireland. [a] [3] [b] The development comprises Bloom Lane, a pedestrianised alley, and the properties located along both sides of it, including an apartment complex known as Quartiere Bloom.
A group of brutalist flats called Dolphin House are located in Dolphin's Barn. They were constructed in 1957 and comprise 392 flats. It is Dublin’s largest remaining public housing flat complex and, as of 2023, was going through a regeneration project by Dublin City Council .
The Ballymun Flats referred to a number of flats—including the seven Ballymun tower blocks—in Ballymun, Dublin, Ireland. Built rapidly [ 3 ] in the 1960s, there were 36 blocks in total, consisting of 7 fifteen-storey, 19 eight-storey, and 10 four-storey blocks.
Blackhall Place first appears on maps in 1822 while earlier Blackhall Street appears from 1789 and Blackhall market and row from 1787. [2] It broadly follows the plan for the area surrounding the school first set out by Thomas Ivory in 1775 and continued after his death in 1786. [ 3 ]
Between 1937 and 1939, a scheme of local authority flat complexes was built on the street, now known as the Killarney Street scheme. These were designed by Herbert George Simms. After the clearing of a number of the tenements on the street from number 11 to 17 a Dublin Corporation flat complex, Seán Treacy House, was built in the 1960s ...