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Neighbourhood Walk
A Georgian Block
START
KILDARE ST FINISH NATIONAL GALLERY
LENGTH
1.7KM/ONE HOUR
Although Dublin is rightfully known as a Georgian city and many of its buildings were built between 1720 and
1814, the style cast such a tall shadow over Dublin design that for more than a century afterwards it was still being
copied.
Begin your perambulation at the bottom (northern) end of Kildare St, opposite the walls of Trinity College Dub-
lin. This street is named after James Fitzgerald, Duke of Leinster and the Earl of Kildare, who broke with 18th-cen-
tury convention and opted to build his city mansion on the south side of the Liffey, away from the elegant neigh-
