Established
Built between c.1875 and c.1880.
Pub details
- Address
- 72/74 PARNELL STREET AND AN EXTENSION, ATTACHED TO & ADJOINING THE SAID LICENSED PREMISES, WHICH COMPRISES A SEATING AREA TO THE EXISTING ROOF AT SECOND FLOOR LE
- County
- Dublin
- Licence reference
- N1098
Building and heritage
This double-fronted pub was designed by Frederick Morley in 1879 and remains one of a handful of pre-twentieth-century structures on the street. The upper storeys appear to have been rebuilt during the early twentieth century with the elaborate pub front retained and now forming a decorative low-scale element on this much altered streetscape sitting opposite the Rotunda Hospital. Originally called Great Britain Street, renamed Parnell Street in 1911, this street was laid out and complete by the 1750s. During the 1970s road widening plans led to the decline in its original building stock...