- Address
- Trinity College, Dublin 2
- Type
- Building misc
- NIAH reg. no.
- 50020378
Dining Hall
Trinity College, Dublin 2, St Stephen's Green
About Dining Hall
The National Inventory rates Dining Hall National, one of 40 in St Stephen's Green. Its record dates Dining Hall to 1760–1770. 171 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
The first dining hall in Trinity was built in 1741 to designs by Richard Castle. This early building collapsed twice during construction and was never stable.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 50020378 · 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 · 50020378↗National is the National Inventory’s second-highest rating: a building of significance across Ireland.
Make it a walk: 5 historic places in about 10 minutes
St Stephen's Green · about 400 m on foot, as the crow flies
- 1Dining HallStart here
- 2George Salmon StatueRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
- 3Sfera con SferaRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
- 4Printing HouseNational rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
- 5Beckett TheatreRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
43 within 150 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
Show the other 25
Near St Stephen's Green: more buildings of national importance
There are 8 with photos within 40 km. Just 1 km away stands Garden of Remembrance, in Parnell Square. Farthest out is Ireland's Eye Martello Tower, Howth, 14 km away.
Questions about Dining Hall
Is Dining Hall on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated National (record 50020378).
Can you visit Dining Hall?
It can be seen from the street; whether you can go inside depends on its owner.
When was Dining Hall built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1760–1770.
Is Dining Hall 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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