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181: 189: 151:, which stood on the junction of Skinner's Row, Nicholas Street and High Street. This building dated from 1680s, but a structure with a similar function had stood on this site from the early 1300s. It was demolished in 1809, with nothing of the structure remaining. Some of the statues from the Tholsel are now on display in Christ Church Cathedral. A small park named the 158:
The Market Cross also stood near the western end of the junction with High Street. One of its earliest confirmed mentions is from a public punishment in 1571 however it was likely erected much earlier. The last remaining drawing of the cross is by John Simmons in 1776. It was then taken down sometime
132:. It was previously known as Skinners or Skinner's Row, named for the traders working on leather and hides that once occupied the street. It was lined by a number of historically important but now demolished buildings. Before the 162:
Throughout the late 1700s and early 1800s, Skinner's Row was the street where many booksellers, printers, jewellers and goldsmiths worked. In 1768, the first iteration of the book store,
490: 605: 136:, the street was apparently as narrow as 17 feet and was described by Sir John Gilbert as "a narrow and sombre alley". Where it met Castle Street, there was a 177:
Skinner's Row was the narrowest point in the streets of Dublin at the time, and in the 1820s the street was widened and renamed Christchurch Place.
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in Carberry House, which was demolished in 1780 and Stationers' Hall which housed one of the
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in the late 18th or early 19th century and its whereabouts are now unknown.
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until it was demolished for road widening in June 1762.
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at a short stretch which was known as Booth Street.
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Index

Skinner Row
Dublin
D02
53°20′35″N 6°16′15″W / 53.34307°N 6.27075°W / 53.34307; -6.27075
Irish
Dublin
Christ Church Cathedral
Wide Streets Commission
pillory
Fishamble Street
the Tholsel
Peace Park
Hodges Figgis
Dick's Coffee House
Guilds of the City of Dublin


List of streets and squares in Dublin
Church of St. Nicholas Within, Dublin
The Tholsel, Dublin
Dick's Coffee House
"Plás Theampall Chríost"
ISBN
9781848898721


ISBN
9780752490328
ISSN
0012-6861

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