1912 – No. 31 Westmoreland St., Dublin

Architect: Fuller & Jermyn

Built for Lafayette’s photographic studio, which was established in the 1880s, this building has a fine terracotta facade with an eye-catching inset oriel window.

1889 – Royal Bank of Ireland, No.54 Baggot Street, Dublin

Architect: Charles Geoghegan

Demolished to make way for the Bank of Ireland headquarters, now known as Miesian Plaza. The photograph from the Dublin City Collection shows it just prior to demolition for the western block of the complex.

1842 – Former Workhouse, Limavady, Co. Derry

Architect: George Wilkinson

The Newtown Limavady Poor Union was formed in 1839 and covered an area of 240 square miles.

1960 – Altnagelvin Hospital, Derry, Co. Derry

Architect: Yorke, Rosenberg & Mardall

Plans for a new general hospital to serve the northwest of Northern Ireland were drawn up by Yorke,

1915 – Cottage Hospital, Talbot’s Inch, Co. Kilkenny

Architect: Albert E. Murray

Known as Aut Even hospital. A small cottage hospital designed around a central two-storey administrative block from which radiate four single storey wings.

1896 – Royal National Hospital for Consumption, Newcastle, Co. Wicklow

Architect: T.N. Deane & Son / Alfred Phillips

In 1891, at the instigation of Miss Florence Wynn, a provisional committee meet in Dublin with the aim of founding a national sanatorium to treat tuberculosis.

1840 – North Dublin Union Workhouse, Grangegorman, Dublin

Architect: Francis Johnston, William Murray, George Wilkinson

Following an Act of Parliament in 1772, a house of Industry was set up on a large site on North Brunswick Street.

1753 – St. Patrick’s Hospital, Kilmainham, Dublin

Architect: George Semple

The essayist and Dean of Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, Jonathan Swift, died in 1745 and left an endowment in his will for the establishment of a mental hospital for Dublin as “St.

1967 – New Coombe Hospital, Cork Street, Dublin

Architect: TP Kennedy & Partners

The idea of building a new hospital was first looked at in 1931 as it was clear that the old Coombe Lying-In Hospital could not meet increasing demand.

1851 – St. Laurence’s Church, Grangegorman, Dublin

Architect: William G. Murray, Murray & Denny

Small church built between male and female infirmaries at the southern end of the Richmond Asylum site.

1803 – Former Hardwicke Fever Hospital, Morning Star Ave., Dublin

“Fevers of one form or another were endemic in the city at this time and in the House of Industry epidemics were frequent and devastating.

1940 – Former Nurses’ Home, Grangegorman, Dublin

Architect: Vincent Kelly

Enormous nurses’ home built for St. Brendan’s Hospital in 1937-40, and further enlarged in 1949. A U-plan seventeen-bay five-storey building with eight bays on the side elevations.

1816 – Former Whitworth Hospital, Morning Star Ave., Dublin

“Parliament was again petitioned successfully by the Governors [of the North Union] in 1815. Two years later a plain stone building consisting of two wings,

1830 – SS Mary & Peter Church. Rathmines, Dublin

Described in The Dublin Penny Journal, September 14 1833: “A handsome church, in the Gothic style, has been recently erected in the neighbourhood of Rathmines.

1934 – Maskora Turkish Baths, Nos. 97-99 Grafton Street, Dublin

Architect: George L. O’Connor

Nos. 97-99 were demolished in the early 1930s to be replaced with the Maskora Turkish Baths by George L.