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Coordinates:53°20′44″N6°15′33″W / 53.34556°N 6.25917°W /53.34556; -6.25917

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Street in Dublin, Ireland

This article is about the street in Dublin. For the street in London, seeWestmoreland Street, London.

Westmoreland Street
Other
Clockwise from top: Lafayette Building at its intersection with Westmoreland Street; the Lafayette Building on Westmoreland Street; the Westin Hotel

Native name	Sráid Westmoreland (Irish)
Namesake	John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland
Length	220 m (720 ft)
Width	29 metres (95 ft)
Location	Dublin,Ireland
Postal code	D02
Coordinates	53°20′44″N6°15′33″W / 53.34556°N 6.25917°W /53.34556; -6.25917
north end	Aston Quay,O'Connell Bridge
south end	College Green
Known for	restaurants

Bank of Ireland, College Green, seen from Westmoreland Street

Westmoreland Street (Irish:Sráid Westmoreland)^[1] is a street on theSouthside ofDublin. It is currently a one-way street. It carries a segment of theR138 road for northbound traffic; nearbyD'Olier Street carries southbound traffic of that segment.

Location

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It is one of the two broad avenues, along withD'Olier Street, that converge at their northern ends atO'Connell Bridge over theRiver Liffey.^[2] Westmoreland Street links the bridge toTrinity College atCollege Green at its southern end, from where traffic diverges betweenGrafton Street to the south andDame Street to the west. Westmoreland Street also constitutes the eastern border ofTemple Bar.

History

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The street is named afterJohn Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland, who wasLord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1789 to 1794.^[3]^[4] It was one of the last streets laid out by theWide Streets Commission, with the original plans set out in 1792 byHenry Aaron Baker and accepted in 1799.^[5]

Architecture

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Westmoreland Street in the early 20th century

One of the dominant buildings on the street is the former Educational Chambers on the corner ofFleet Street. The original building and facade were significantly altered with a design by architectSam Stephenson in the early 1970s forEBS. The terracotta facade was demolished and replaced with dark mirror glass which was dubbed a "diabolical black box" by a city councillor at the time it was constructed. The EBS had also acquired three adjoining buildings, the Paradiso restaurant, the main office ofThe Irish Times, and Graham's pharmacy with plans to demolish these and replicate the dark glass treatment. However, the planers insisted on solid granite elements for this side of the facade, which rendered the whole scheme lop-sided. The facade of the former Paradiso, anart nouveau design, was retained within the centre of the redevelopment and houses the building's atrium.^[6]

Luas

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Westmoreland Luas stop is on theLuas Green Line (northbound only). This line connects with theRed line and runs betweenBroombridge orParnell in North Dublin andBrides Glen inCherrywood. Construction started in June 2013 with services beginning in December 2017.^[7]^[8]

References

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^"Sráid Westmoreland". logainm.ie.
^Christine Casey.Dublin: The City Within the Grand and Royal Canals and the Circular Road, with the Phoenix Park.Yale University Press, 2006.ISBN 978-0-300-10923-8; pp. 420–424
^Bardon, Carol and Jonathan (1988).If Ever You Go to Dublin Town. Belfast: The Blackstaff Press. p. 98.ISBN 0-85640-397-0.
^M'Cready, C. T. (1987).Dublin street names dated and explained. Blackrock, Co. Dublin: Carraig. p. 141.ISBN 1-85068-005-1.OCLC 263974843.
^Clerkin, Paul (2001).Dublin street names. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan. p. 189.ISBN 0-7171-3204-8.OCLC 48467800.
^McDonald, Frank (1985).The Destruction of Dublin. Gill and MacMillan. p. 176.ISBN 0-7171-1386-8.
^"Green light given to Luas link-up, first passengers 2017". RTÉ. Archived fromthe original on 5 August 2012. Retrieved5 August 2012.
^"Taoiseach launches new Luas Cross City service in Dublin". RTÉ. 9 December 2017. Retrieved9 December 2017.
^Brady, Tara (29 October 2022)."Pat Ingoldsby: 'I didn't want to be in anything that involved talking about myself'".The Irish Times. Retrieved21 July 2024.
^Maxwell, Luke (2 November 2022)."The Peculiar Sensation of Being Pat Ingoldsby, Reviewed".DublinInQuirer. Retrieved21 July 2024.

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