Group 1: Historical Development

Leonie Fitzgerald, Denis Forrest, Andrea Doyle

1660 – 1685Aungier Estate began

1664St Stephens Green set out

1666 The British Monarchy was restored

Duke of Ormond Returns

Gardiner Estate

1714 Georgian Period began

1720 Beginning of Gardiner Estate1st Luke Gardiner developed Henrietta Street

Development of the area up to Gardiner Street from 1728 – 1802

1753 Rutland Square set out Cavendish Row, Gardiners Row, Palace Row

1748 Gardiner 2nd began Sackville Mall

1757 Wide Street Commissioners activated in Parliament

1776-1783 The American Revolution

Catholic Relief Act introduced by Luke Gardiner 2nd

1781 New Customs House

1787 Thomas Sherrard’s drawings of Mountjoy Square

1789 – 99 The French Revolution

1791 0’Connell Bridge 1792 Work on Mountjoy square began

The Royal Circus appeared on map until the end of the 18th century but was never built

By 1798 most of the square was finished except for the eastern side

Death of Luke Gardiner in 1798

The Demise of the Gardiner Estate

Act of Union of 1801

1847-1848 Famine

1846 Gardiner estate broken up and sold to builders

Griffith’s Valuation 1854Prunty (1998)

Dublin Civic Survey, 1925

All units classed as insanitary highlighted in bold

Population density of 117.6 persons per acre in Mountjoy ward

The Demise of the square

1960’s Mountjoy Square houses condemned and demolished by corporations

1970’s Irish Georgian Society efforts to preserve the square

Purchase of No. 50 by the Guinness to prevent demolition by developers Leinster Estates