Established
Built between c.1870 and c.1890.
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Revenue's renewed-liquor-licence register lists licence ref N0089 as a Publican's Licence (7-Day Ordinary) for THE TEMPLE at 71 UPPER DORSET STREET AND 1 HARDWICK PLACE in DUBLIN CITY with QUAYKOFF TAVERNS LIMITED as licensee.[1]
NIAH records the associated building as a Regional-rated structure dated 1870-1890 and notes Temple Bar district history, nineteenth-century directory evidence, and surviving brick, granite, and timber-sash fabric.[2]
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Established
Built between c.1870 and c.1890.
Architecture
Temple Bar is named after Sir William Temple and his son Sir John Temple who acquired the land between the River Liffey and Dame Street in the seventeenth century. The area was fully reclaimed and developed by the early eighteenth century and became a mixed residential and commercial quarter. Commercial directories record J.
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