Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Library
County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.34392, -6.25682
- SMR number
- DU018-020180-
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 LibraryDigital Commonwealth, Boston Public LibraryDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In 1592 the mayor of Dublin granted the site of All Hallows to Adam Loftus, archbishop of Dublin, Provost of Queen Elizabeth's College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity. James Ussher (1625–56), Archbishop of Armagh, whose most important works were "Veterum Epistolarum Hibernicarum Sylloge", published in 1632, and "Brittanicarum Ecclesiarum Antiquitates", which appeared in 1639, left his valuable library, comprising several thousand printed books and manuscripts, to Trinity College, Dublin, and his complete works were published by that institution in twenty-four volumes. In the 1700's the area to the NE of the quadrangle was divided into a large Square, called Library Square (Simpson, L 2002, 195-236).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Date of upload: 17 January 2013
References
Simpson, L. 2002 The priory of All Hallows and Trinity College,Dublin: recent archaeological discoveries. In S. Duffy (ed.), Medieval Dublin 3, 195-236. Dublin. Four Courts Press Ltd.
Nearby in the register
- Ogham stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Ogham stone (present location)under 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Collegeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.