Beresford Place

Beresford Place was built as a continuous crescent which was aligned to the axis of the central dome of the Custom House in 1792. Along with the Custom House, the houses of this street were designed by James Gandon. It was at the edge of the city, with Marlborough Green and Tyrone House to the north and Mabbot Street to the south. They were built for John Claudius Beresford. The three middle houses are practically identical, bar minor differences. The end houses are both on an irregular trapezoidal plan, and are entered from Gardiner Street and Store Street respectively.[1]

This crescent was bisected in 1888-1889 by the building of the Loop Line railway, and since further impacted by the large volume of traffic which runs through it. Five houses between two radial streets, Gardiner Street and Store Street, remain, with the houses west of Gardiner Street having been demolished. The site occupied by Busáras was intended to be a further store house for Custom House Quay. The extant Gandon houses are 4 storeys over basements, built with brick with granite rustication. They are among very few unified formal terraces from the 18th century and the only surviving example.[1] There were tentative plans to demolish and redevelop the site in the 1960s, with a design by Michael Scott.[2][3]

Connolly statue

In 1996 a statue of James Connolly by Éamonn O'Doherty was erected on the street just west of the Custom House, facing onto Liberty Hall. At the other end of the street, at the junction of Beresford Place, Amiens Street, and Memorial Road is the Chain Sphere by Tony O'Malley, erected in 1995.[1]

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