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RESTORATION PROJECT

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RESTORATION PROJECT AT THE CORNER OF UPPER ORMOND QUAY AND EAST ARRAN STREET

Dublin Civic Trust has promoted its restoration of 67 Arran Street East through social media platforms, acknowledging The Heritage Council’s vital funding and support.

The building is an unusual surviving example of a 1760s house featuring a high status rococo-style cornice. The aim of the project is to strip off inappropriate cement layers and restore the 1760s character of the building. This includes sash windows reinstatement, brick pointing, Roman cement repairs and on-site investigation as the works are underway.

Dublin Civic Trust is an independent charitable organisation that works to identify, preserve and create awareness about Dublin’s architectural heritage.

As an educational trust, they promote best practice repair and conservation of historic buildings and streetscape – involving identifying and recording the city’s built heritage, developing policy and skills training, and undertaking targeted acquisition and refurbishment of historic buildings as engaging demonstration projects. THey are committed to sustainable urban development, understanding that creative new intervention and adaptation of existing buildings is essential to the evolution of historic cities everywhere.

Dublin’s status as a historic European capital of character and distinction is a resource of enormous social and economic value – one that has not been adequately developed to date. The work of the Trust is targeted at preserving and enhancing this built asset for the benefit of everyone, with an aspiration for Dublin as a living historic city that embraces this unique built identity.

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A WALK ALONG THE CITY CENTRE QUAYS JUST BEFORE SUNSET

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A WALK ALONG THE CITY CENTRE QUAYS JUST BEFORE SUNSET

This series of images shows Aston Quay, Wellington Quay and Ormond Quay.

The River Liffey is a river in eastern Ireland that ultimately flows through the centre of Dublin to its mouth within Dublin Bay. Its major tributaries include the River Dodder, the River Poddle and the River Camac. The river supplies much of Dublin’s water and supports a range of recreational activities.

The Dublin quays refers to the two roadways and quays that run along the north and south banks of the River Liffey in Dublin, Ireland. The stretches of the two continuous streets have several different names. However, all but three of the names (Swift’s Row, Bachelors Walk and Usher’s Island) share the same “Quay” designation. The quays have played an important part in Dublin’s history.

The name designations of the north roadway are (from west to east): Wolfe Tone Quay, Sarsfield Quay, Ellis Quay, Arran Quay, Inns Quay, Upper Ormond Quay, Lower Ormond Quay, Bachelors Walk, Eden Quay, Custom House Quay and North Wall Quay.

The name designations of the south roadway are (from west to east): Victoria Quay, Usher’s Island, Usher’s Quay, Merchant’s Quay, Wood Quay, Essex Quay, Wellington Quay, Crampton Quay, Aston Quay, Burgh Quay, George’s Quay, City Quay, Sir John Rogerson’s Quay and Britain Quay.

AN UGLY GAP IN THE STREETSCAPE

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AN UGLY GAP IN THE STREETSCAPE – WHERE THE ORMOND HOTEL WAS

All construction workers can return to work tomorrow [4 May 2021] and it then that it becomes obvious that some projects have been abandoned. It would be very disappointing if the construction of the new hotel does not restart this week.

The iconic Ormond Hotel on the north quays was purchased for just €2.5 million by Queens Park Rangers owner Tony Fernandes in the middle of the recession. In 2013, planning permission was sought to demolish the old building and replace it with a 170 bedroom hotel but the plan was rejected but eventually the owner was granted permission to develop a smaller 121 room hotel.

The €25 million redevelopment project was expected to be completed by the first quarter of 2020 but there were many problems and the project was delayed and then there was was Covid-19.

CYCLING ALONG ORMOND QUAY

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CYCLING ALONG ORMOND QUAY

Ormond Quay was the first of the quays to be built on the north side of the River Liffey, complete by c.1680, developed by Sir Humphrey Jervis and named in honour of the Duke of Ormond who instigated the trend for building houses facing the river.

The Dublin quays refers to the two roadways and quays that run along the north and south banks of the River Liffey in Dublin, Ireland. The stretches of the two continuous streets have several different names. However, all but three of the names (Swift’s Row, Bachelors Walk and Usher’s Island) share the same “Quay” designation. The quays have played an important part in Dublin’s history.

Much of the southern roadway and about half of the northern roadway is part of the R148 road while the other half of the northern roadway is part of the R801 road.

Both roadways run approximately 4.3 km (2.7 mi) from Sean Heuston Bridge in the west. The eastern end of the north roadway is at East-Link Bridge while the south roadway turns southward at the Grand Canal. Seventeen bridges cross the river along the line of The Quays; three of them are exclusively pedestrian bridges, one a railway bridge, one other for Luas trams (with another planned) and pedestrians, and the remainder for vehicular and pedestrian use.

The name designations of the north roadway are (from west to east): Wolfe Tone Quay, Sarsfield Quay, Ellis Quay, Arran Quay, Inns Quay, Upper Ormond Quay, Lower Ormond Quay, Bachelors Walk, Eden Quay, Custom House Quay and North Wall Quay.

The name designations of the south roadway are (from west to east): Victoria Quay, Usher’s Island, Usher’s Quay, Merchant’s Quay, Wood Quay, Essex Quay, Wellington Quay, Crampton Quay, Aston Quay, Burgh Quay, George’s Quay, City Quay, Sir John Rogerson’s Quay and Britain Quay.

A majority of the roadways in the city centre are one-way with the north roadway being eastward and the south being westward.

THE ORMOND HOTEL

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THE ORMOND HOTEL DURING ITS DERELICT PERIOD

This photograph was taken in September 2012. Demolition started on the site in June 2018 but at a later date a the owners of a restaurant located beside the site claimed that noise dust and vibrations were at such a level they were forced to cease trading. In August 2019 a high court judge dismissed claims that redevelopment works at the Ormond Hotel in Dublin were in breach of the planning laws.

https://www.igs.ie/conservation/risk/ormond-hotel-7-11-upper-ormond-quay

The Ormond Hotel which featured in James Joyce’s Ulysses was derelict for many years but was purchased by Monteco Holdings for €2.5m and their €25 million redevelopment was expected to complete by the first quarter of 2020 but currently [March 2021] it is nowhere near completion.

Before the Covid-19 a large number of hotels were under construction in the city centre and there is speculation that as many as 20% will never open as the demand for hotel rooms in Dublin may be greatly reduced for at least two or three years. The indications that the new Ormond Hotel will actually open as it is well financed and is in a position to take a long-term view. I do hope that this project will be completed.

Note: The overall site numbers 7-13 on Ormond Quay Upper and includes a protected structure at number 12. It adjoins number six, a national monument which dates to the 17th century.

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