- Address
- 86 Capel Street, Dublin 1
- Type
- House
- NIAH reg. no.
- 50060491
Workwear
86 Capel Street, Dublin 1, Parnell Square
Many historic buildings are private homes. Please enjoy them from the street.
About Workwear
Workwear is one of 309 buildings in Parnell Square the National Inventory rates Regional. Its record dates Workwear to 1690–1730. 51 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
Dublin Civic Trust's 'Survey of Gable-Fronted and Other Early Buildings of Dublin' states, 'The mid twentieth-century façade of this former house and its neighbour at No.87 is likely to conceal an early eighteenth-century house, the roof plan being the only external indicator of this typology.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 50060491 · 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 · 50060491↗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
Parnell Square · about 500 m on foot, as the crow flies
- 1WorkwearStart here
- 2Denis Darcy TailorRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
- 3Williams & Woods LtdRegional rating (NIAH) · 200 m on
- 4Mount Carmel National SchoolRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
- 5Youth Work IrelandNational rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
Saint Saviour's ChurchNational rating (NIAH)300 mSaint Saviour's PrioryRegional rating (NIAH)300 mFabric SelectRegional rating (NIAH)400 mMandarin House RestaurantRegional rating (NIAH)400 mDublin Central Taxis / Washington Mobile PhoneRegional rating (NIAH)400 mVere Foster HouseRegional rating (NIAH)400 m31 within 150 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
Show the other 13
Recorded houses around Parnell Square
8 like it are within 40 km, each with a photo. The nearest is Green Street Courthouse in Phibsborough, 100 m away.
Questions about Workwear
Is Workwear on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 50060491).
Can you visit Workwear?
Many historic buildings are private homes; this one can be seen from the street.
When was Workwear built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1690–1730.
Is Workwear 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).
Contains Central Statistics Office (CSO) data, Census 2022, and Tailte Éireann boundaries (CSO Urban Areas, Small Areas, local electoral areas, constituencies), under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).