- Address
- Bellevue, Rainsford Street, Dublin 8
- Type
- Store / warehouse
- NIAH reg. no.
- 50080251
Digital Exchange
Bellevue, Rainsford Street, Dublin 8, Dolphins Barn
Many historic buildings are private homes. Please enjoy them from the street.
About Digital Exchange
Digital Exchange is one of 181 buildings in Dolphins Barn the National Inventory rates Regional. Its record dates Digital Exchange to 1875–1885. 85 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
This building was once part of the neighbouring Guinness brewery that was founded in 1759. This area between Bellevue (also spelled Belview, and marked as Sugar House Lane on Rocque's map of Dublin) and Thomas Court was listed as tenements in Thom's Directory of 1870.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 50080251 · CC BY 4.0 · Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
NIAHRead its National Inventory recordThe full description and appraisal, the survey photo and the map · 50080251↗Regional is the National Inventory’s rating for a building of significance in its region; most rated buildings carry it.
Make it a walk: 5 historic places in about 10 minutes
Dolphins Barn · about 500 m on foot, as the crow flies
- 1Digital ExchangeStart here
- 2Guinness Enterprise CentreRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
- 3Guinness Brewery (surgery / clinic)Regional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
- 4
Guinness StorehouseNational rating (NIAH) · 100 m on - 5Guinness Brewery (office)Regional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
Saint James's Church (church / chapel)Regional rating (NIAH)300 mFountain Resource CentreRegional rating (NIAH)300 m26 within 150 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
Near Dolphins Barn: more houses on the record
“House, 130-130A Thomas Street, Dublin 8” in The Liberties is the nearest, at 200 m. 8 like it are within 40 km, each with a photo.
Questions about Digital Exchange
Is Digital Exchange on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 50080251).
Can you visit Digital Exchange?
Many historic buildings are private homes; this one can be seen from the street.
When was Digital Exchange built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1875–1885.
Is Digital Exchange protected?
Being on the National Inventory or the Sites and Monuments Record is a record, not protection by itself: buildings are protected by their council’s Record of Protected Structures, which each council keeps and no national open list gathers, so this page can’t say which are on it.
Source: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage and Sites and Monuments Record, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata (CC0).
Sources: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (buildingsofireland.ie). Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
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