Ormond Square () is a square on the northside of Dublin city.
History
Ormond Square sits on the site of the former Ormond Market. Along with
Ormond Quay, the square is named after
James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond
Lieutenant-General James FitzThomas Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond, KG, PC (19 October 1610 – 21 July 1688), was a statesman and soldier, known as Earl of Ormond from 1634 to 1642 and Marquess of Ormond from 1642 to 1661. Following the failur ...
.
Ormond Market appears on maps of Dublin in 1684, and was built on an area formerly known as The Pill. The Pill was a small river inlet which branched off the
River Liffey
The River Liffey ( Irish: ''An Life'', historically ''An Ruirthe(a)ch'') is a river in eastern Ireland that ultimately flows through the centre of Dublin to its mouth within Dublin Bay. Its major tributaries include the River Dodder, the Riv ...
at the estuary of the River Bradogue and the area around it, and formed part of the land granted to
St Mary's Abbey. The inlet was later removed when the River Liffey was confined by the Quay walls
and the land was reclaimed.
Ormond market
The public market building was built by Sir
Humphrey Jervis
Humphrey Jervis (1630–1707) KBE was the first private developer in the history of Dublin. He was Lord Mayor of Dublin during the reign of Charles II of England.
Life
Jervis was born in 1630 in Ollerton, Shropshire. He was one of the y ...
. It consisted of an open central rotunda with 70 stalls. When the
new city markets where built on Mary's Lane, the Ormond Market was demolished in 1890 and public housing was later built on the site. It was then renamed Ormond Square.
Notable residents
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Johnny Giles
Michael John Giles (born 6 November 1940) is an Irish former association football player and manager best remembered for his time as a midfielder with Leeds United in the 1960s and 1970s. After retiring from management in 1985, Giles served as t ...
former
association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
player and
manager
Management (or managing) is the administration of an organization, whether it is a business, a nonprofit organization, or a government body. It is the art and science of managing resources of the business.
Management includes the activities ...
lived in 7A Ormond Square
References
{{Squares of Dublin City
Squares in Dublin (city)