Ely Place (/ˈiːlaɪ/ Irish: Plás Íle) is a street in central Dublin with Georgian architecture.

Built in 1771 by Gustavus Hume, it was occupied in 1776 by John La Touche, of the banking family.

[4] Next door, at No.6, lived the Countess of Clare (Anne Whaley, wife of Lord Chancellor of Ireland John Fitzgibbon (1749–1802), died at Ely Place), who also employed Stapleton.

[5] The two houses at Nos.5 and 6 were taken into Government service in 1859, when they became the Offices of the General Valuation and Boundary Survey of Ireland under Sir Richard Griffith, Bart.

These buildings retained their grandeur through the next century until in 1998, the Valuation Office moved away from Ely Place after a tenancy of 138 years.

Another resident of this street was John Philpot Curran (1750–1817), the lawyer and wit who defended the United Irishmen and whose daughter became enamoured of Robert Emmet.

[7][8] A later headmaster was Dr William John Chetwode Crawley (1843-1916), an author, academic and historian of Freemasonry.

[3] On the other side of the street lived the writer, surgeon and wit Oliver St. John Gogarty (1878–1957).

The academy's old headquarters, a Victorian house which had once been the property of Oliver St. John Gogarty was demolished and it was expected that the modern building, designed by Raymond McGrath, formerly Principal Architect with the OPW, would be ready for its first exhibition in 1975.

His son, Patrick Gallagher, inherited the business, and within a few months, all work on the site stopped.