CRU is one of 450 buildings in O'Connell Street the National Inventory rates Regional. Its record dates CRU to 1915–1920. 296 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
This building replaced a townhouse destroyed during the 1916 Rising, along with much of the Abbey Street Middle. It was designed by the architect Patrick Munden who later formed the partnership of Munden and Purcell Architects, which continued until the 1980s.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 50010382 · CC BY 4.0 · Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
It can be seen from the street; whether you can go inside depends on its owner.
When was CRU built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1915–1920.
Is CRU 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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