Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Theatre
County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.34086, -6.26620
- SMR number
- DU018-020162-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
American Geographical Society Library, UW-MilwaukeeLionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public LibraryDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDigital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1836 · Dublin (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1900 · Large scale plan of Dublin. (Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library)
- 1908 · Dublin, Ireland 1908 (American Geographical Society Library, UW-Milwaukee)
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The National Monuments Service's description
There is an 'old Theatre' marked on Rocque's map 1756. This was the Theatre Royal, built only twenty years earlier (1733) by the architect of the Parliament House, Edward Lovett Pearce ( Lennon & Montague 2010, 49).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Date of upload: 15 January 2013
References
Lennon, C. and Montague, J. 2010 John Rocque's Dublin: a guide to the Georgian City. Dublin. Royal Irish Academy.
Rocque, J. 1756 An exact survey of the city and suburbs of Dublin. Available at https://libguides.ucd.ie/findingmaps/mapshistDublin Accessed on 5 January .
Rocque, J. 1760 An Actual Survey of the County of Dublin, on the same Scale, as those of Middlesex, Oxford, Berks and Buckinghamshire. Available at http://sdublincoco.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=e0c5595b033341dea7661e248d2e9ee9// [Accessed 21 September 2016]
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- House - 18th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.