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T P SMITHS

18 UPPER ABBEY STREET AND, 9/10 JERVIS STREET, Dublin

Pub details

Address
18 UPPER ABBEY STREET AND, 9/10 JERVIS STREET
County
Dublin
Eircode
D01 XV66
Licence reference
N1080

Amenities

  • Limited wheelchair access

Building and heritage

This public house incorporated two eighteenth-century houses, Nos.9 and 10 Jervis Street, which were used as tenements (No.9) and a grocer’s (No.10) in 1850. By 1870 Nos.9 and 10 were both occupied by Nicholas Behan grocer and spirit dealer, so it can be assumed the joined premises took on the function of a public house at this time. The proportions and window arrangement are a valuable reminder of the former residential function of these buildings and are a very rare survival of the eighteenth-century fabric of Jervis Street. The three-storey pub is now completely dwarfed by the Jervis...

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Established

Built between c.1740 and c.1760.

Architecture

By 1870 Nos.9 and 10 were both occupied by Nicholas Behan grocer and spirit dealer, so it can be assumed the joined premises took on the function of a public house at this time. The proportions and window arrangement are a valuable reminder of the former residential function of these buildings and are a very rare survival of the eighteenth-century…

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