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Sessions House, Dublin
Green Street Courthouse () is a courthouse between Green Street and Halston Street in the Smithfield area of Dublin, Ireland. It was the site of many widely discussed criminal trials from 1797 until 2010, when the Criminal Courts of Justice building opened. Under British rule The Dublin City Sessions House, which was designed in the neoclassical style and built in ashlar stone, was completed in 1797, on part of the "Little Green", which had been owned by St. Mary's Abbey before the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and was later used as a graveyard. The previous sessions house was the Tholsel, beside the Church of St. Nicholas Within. The architect of the new Sessions House is believed to have been Whitmore Davis. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage facing Smithfield; the central section featured a large hexastyle portico with Doric order columns supporting an entablature and a modillioned pediment. The building held different courts, including the Dublin Commi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smithfield, Dublin
Smithfield () is an area on the Northside of Dublin. Its focal point is a public square, formerly an open market and common, now officially called Smithfield Plaza, but known locally as Smithfield Square or Smithfield Market. Historically, Smithfield formed the western part of Oxmantown and lay close to Oxmantown Green. Originally, Smithfield lay within the civil parish of St. Paul's. The area known as Smithfield roughly incorporates the area bounded by the River Liffey to the south, Bow Street to the east, Queen Street to the west, and North Brunswick street in the suburb of Grangegorman to the north. Notable landmarks include the Old Jameson Whiskey Distillery and the Observation Tower. History Smithfield Market was laid out in its current form in the mid-17th century as a marketplace close to the site of the former Oxmantown Green. Until its renovation in the early 21st Century, the square was lined with inner city 'farm yards' housing livestock. In 1964 Richard Burton a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
