Tailors’s Hall
Back Lane. Three hundred year old building, the city’s only surviving guildhall, now headquarters of An Taisce, the nation’s National Trust. Tel: (01) 454 1788.

Temple Bar
Temple Bar is both an area and a street
(see next entry for the latter).

The area is Dublin’s delightful Greenwich Village style arondissement of bistros and european style cafe-bars on the corners of its mostly cobbled narrow ‘left bank/rive gauche’ streets down by the Liffey’s right bank (this being Ireland) west of College Green between Dame Street and the river, dates mostly from the 1700s. Once all scheduled for demolition to make room for a massive bus station it has been reprieved and is currently being re-developed, sympathetically, and regenerated as a ‘quartier’ for artists and artisans – and of course therefore for visitors.

Temple Bar
The winding cobbled street of pubs and galleries which gives its name to the area, took its name from the one of the area’s first landowners, William Temple, Secretary to the Earl of Essex and Provost of Trinity in 1609. The word ‘bar’ referred to the sandy riverbank walk overlooked by William’s house. By the 19th century it was the street of nailers; carpenters; soap boilers, tin plate workers and engravers.

Wellington Quay
The Quay is notable for Merchant’s Hall and the associated Merchant’s Arch, designed by architect Frederick Darley who also designed the elegant Greek Magnetic Observatory of Trinity College, the Library of King’s Inns and the Conservatories at the Botanic Gardens Glasnevin.

Whitefriars Carmelite Church
57 Aungier St, Whitefriars St.
Tel: (01) 475 8821. To be visited by the romantic each February 14th as St.Valentine, his remains brought from Rome in 1836, is buried beneath the altar. The Virgin & Child is the only wooden statue to survive the Reformation.

North of the River Liffey

Abbey Presbyterian Church
Parnell Sq. Slim of spire, the church is often known by the name of its sponsor (Alex) Findlater’s, grocer, brewer, wine merchant.