1. Group 1: Historical Development Leonie Fitzgerald, Denis Forrest, Andrea Doyle

2. 1660 – 1685 Aungier Estate began 1664 St Stephens Green set out 1666 The British Monarchy was restored Duke of Ormond Returns

3. Gardiner Estate Georgian Period began Beginning of Gardiner Estate 1st Luke Gardiner developed Henrietta Street

4. Development of the area up to Gardiner Street from 1728 – 1802 1753 Rutland Square set out Cavendish Row, Gardiners Row, Palace Row 1748 Gardiner 2nd began Sackville Mall

6. 1757 Wide Street Commissioners activated in Parliament 1776-1783 The American Revolution

7. Catholic Relief Act introduced by Luke Gardiner 2nd 1781 New Customs House

8. 1787 Thomas Sherrard’s drawings of Mountjoy Square 1789 – 99 The French Revolution

9. 1791 0’Connell Bridge 1792 Work on Mountjoy square began

10. The Royal Circus appeared on map until the end of the 18th century but was never built By 1798 most of the square was finished except for the eastern side

12. Death of Luke Gardiner in 1798

13. The Demise of the Gardiner Estate Act of Union of 1801 1847-1848 Famine

14. 1846 Gardiner estate broken up and sold to builders

15. Griffith’s Valuation 1854 Prunty (1998)

16. Dublin Civic Survey, 1925 All units classed as insanitary highlighted in bold Population density of 117.6 persons per acre in Mountjoy ward

17. The Demise of the square 1960’s Mountjoy Square houses condemned and demolished by corporations

18. 1970’s Irish Georgian Society efforts to preserve the square Purchase of No. 50 by the Guinness to prevent demolition by developers Leinster Estates