Reply To: Luke Gardiner (Lord Mountjoy).

The northside went into decline esp during the mid-19th century, with the influx of peasants from the country because of the Famine. Naturally, as the northside had become significantly cheaper than the southside, landlords cashed in big time in converting Gardiner’s houses into firstly respectable ‘apartments’ and later tenements.

What did either of the Gardiners have planned for the southern end of Gardiner St, the current site of the Custom House? Did they plan the Crescent, part of which Gandon executed?

It’s such a pity a circus was never built, an Irish brown stock brick version of Bath’s would have been spectacular, esp if the ground floors were rusticated in granite, or rendered into blocks.