Dominick Street, Dublin

The first lease is recorded in 1727 made out to Lady Alice Hume at the corner of Great Britain Street which was bounded by the house of Dominick.

Later Sir Christopher Dominick's sole grand daughter, Emily Olivia, would marry William FitzGerald, 2nd Duke of Leinster with their new home on the street remaining in family ownership as their city residence up to its replacement in the 1950s by social housing.

In the first half of the century, the houses continued to be owned or leased by members of the middle and merchant classes such as the legal profession, owing to the streets proximity to the King's Inns and the Four Courts.

Between 1875 and 1880 a number of social housing blocks named the Temple Buildings were constructed on the street to a design by Thomas Newenham Deane.

In 1958 large parts of Lower Dominick Street were cleared with the space later replaced with Dublin Corporation flats designed by Desmond FitzGerald in the 1960s.

[9] Between 2018 and 2022, a new block of 72 social housing apartments named Dominick Hall were constructed as part of a larger regeneration scheme for the street.

Saint Saviour's Dominican Priory Church and Georgian housing.
Lower Dominick Street, Dublin (1968)
Over door entablature and frieze taken from 20 Dominick Street