1730s – La Touche Bank, Cork Hill, Dublin
Architect: Joseph Jarratt
The La Touches were a Huguenots family from the Loire, who fled to Holland on the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
1738 – Bective House, Smithfield, Dublin
Architect: Richard Cassels
Designed by Richard Cassels for Thomas Taylor, afterwards 1st Lord Headfort and Earl of Bective. It included extensive stables running back to Queen Street.
1746 – Tracton House, St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin
Constructed between 1744-46 for the then Surveyor General, Arthur Jones Nevill. Llater divided into two separate premises, and shopfronts were also inserted into the Merrion Row facade.
1747 – Weavers’ Hall, The Coombe, Dublin
Architect: Joseph Jarratt
A weavers’ hall had been built by The Weavers’ Guild, The Guild of the Blessed Virgin Mary,
1756 – Nos 1-4 Kildare Place, Dublin
Architect: Richard Cassels / John Ensor
Originally Kildare Place consisted of four houses onto a small square bordered by Kildare Street.
1760s – Royal Hibernian Hotel, Dawson Street, Dublin
The former Royal Hibernian Hotel dated back to 1751 as a pair of buildings making up a coaching inn, making it one of the country’s first hotels.
1760s – Royal Irish Academy, No.107 Grafton Street, Dublin
Early home of the Royal Irish Academy, which had some minor work by Richard Johnstom, and internal stuccowork by Charles Thorp.
1762 – St. Thomas’s Church, Marlborough St., Dublin
Architect: John Smyth
Construction started in 1758 and took four years to complete. Based on Palladio’s church of the Rendentore at Venice.
1775 – Antrim House, Merrion Square, Dublin
Architect: John Ensor
At the junction of Merrion Square and Lower Mount Street stood Antrim House, frequently described as the most impressive on the square after Leinster House.
1780 – St. Catherine’s Church, Meath St., Dublin
“The chapel belonging to the parish formerly stood in Bridge foot street at the north side of Thomas street, but it being dilapidated,
