Beresford Place was developed in 1792 as a continuous crescent which was aligned to the axis of the central dome of the Custom House.

At that time it was located at the edge of the city, with Marlborough Bowling Green and Pleasure Gardens and Tyrone House to the north and Mabbot Street to the south.

The site now occupied by Busáras was originally a further terraced crescent of storehouses which were part of the Custom House Docks and gave Store Street its name.

The extant Gandon houses are 4 storeys over basements, built with red brick with rusticated granite ground floors.

[3][4] 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.