FOSTER PLACE

FOSTER PLACE OFF DAME STREET

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STREETS AND LANES OF DUBLIN ADELAIDE ROAD IN DUBLIN ANGLESEA STREET IN TEMPLE BAR ARBOUR HILL ROAD DUBLIN 7 ARDEE STREET - CHAMBER STREET ARD RI ROAD AUGHRIM PLACE OFF OXMANTOWM ROAD AUNGIER STREET BACK LANE NEAR CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL BEDFORD ROW IN TEMPLE BAR BENBURB STREET BIRD AVENUE IN CLONSKEAGH BLACK HALL PLACE WHERE THE LAW SOCIETY IS BASED BLACKHALL STREET BLOOMFIELD AVENUE OFF THE SOUTH CIRCULAR BOW STREET DUBLIN 7 BRIDGEFOOT STREET BURGESS LANE BRUNSWICK STREET NORTH CAMDEN STREET CAMDEN ROW CARMAN'S HALL CATHEDRAL VIEW COURT CHANCERY PLACE - CHANCERY STREET - WEST CHARLES STREET CHARLEVILLE ROAD RATHMINES CLANBRASSIL STREET UPPER A QUICK VISIT TO CLARENDON STREET 26 JULY 2020 CLYDE LANE CLYDE ROAD IN BALLSBRIDGE COOK STREET - AUGUST 2020 CROSSTICK ALLEY - CATHERINE STREET IN THE LIBERTIES OF DUBLIN DAME LANE DEAN STREET - NEWMARKET AREA OF DUBLIN DOMINICK STREET DORSET STREET DORSET STREET LOWER DORSET STREET UPPER DRUMCONDRA ROAD UPPER THE DOORS OF DUBLIN - FITZWILLIAM PLACE FISHAMBLE STREET - TEMPLE BAR AREA OF DUBLIN FLEET STREET IN THE TEMPLE BAR AREA FOSTER PLACE FRANCIS STREET FRANCIS STREET - JUNE 2020 FRANKFORT AVENUE - RATHGAR DUBLIN 6 FREDERICK STREET NORTH - 22 MAY 2020 GLASTHULE ROAD DUN LAOGHAIRE GARVILLE AVENUE - BRIGHTON SQUARE TO RATHGAR ROAD NORTH GEORGE'S STREET - DOORS OF DUBLIN LOWER GRANGEGORMAN 13 JUNE 2020 GRAND CANAL STREET ON A REALLY WET DAY GREEN STREET OFF NORTH KING STREET LOOKING DOWN HARCOURT STREET FROM ADELAIDE ROAD HAROLD'S CROSS ROAD HENRIETTA STREET HENRIETTA PLACE HENRIETTA PLACE - APRIL 2020 JEROME CONNOR PLACE PENCIL SHAPED BOLLARDS AND THE FRANCIS STREET SCHOOL ZONE ON JOHN DILLON STREET - ST NICHOLAS PLACE - CLARENCE MANGAN SQUARE KILDARE STREET KINGS INNS STREET KING STREET NORTH LAMB ALLEY - WHERE THERE IS A SECTION OF THE OLD CITY WALL LIBERTY LANE OFF CAMDEN ROW LINDSAY ROAD LITTLE BRITAIN STREET DUBLIN 1 LURGAN STREET OF NORTH KING STREET MANOR STREET - AUGUST 2020 MARY'S ABBEY MEATH STREET AND NEARBY MOLESWORTH STREET MOLESWORTH STREET [AS IT WAS IN APRIL 2017] MOUNT STREET UPPER - DOORS OF DUBLIN NICHOLAS STREET - BETWEEN ST PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL AND CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL NORTH CIRCULAR ROAD NEW BRIDE STREET NICHOLAS STREET O'CONNELL STREET ORMOND PLACE OXMANTOWN ROAD PARNELL STREET - DUBLIN'S CHINATOWN RANDOM IMAGES OF PEARSE STREET APRIL 2017 PETERS PLACE - NEAR HARCOURT STREET TRAM STOP RATHMINES ROAD LOWER RICHMOND HILL RATHMINES ST PETER'S LANE IN PHIBSBOROUGH SAINT LUKE'S AVENUE OFF DEAN STREET SITRIC PLACE SITRIC ROAD SOUTH RICHMOND STREET THOMAS STREET THOR PLACE TOWNSEND STREET VIKING ROAD AND VIKING PLACE WESTERN WAY - BROADSTONE AREA YARNHALL STREET OFF BOLTON STREET STREET PHOTOGRAPHED IN 2019
The street is named after John Foster.

Foster Place was opened in the late eighteenth century, replacing a narrow thoroughfare called Turn Stile Alley. Its short length contains a number of significant buildings including the former Parliament House, Daly's Clubhouse and the former armoury. This pair of houses is attributed to Francis Johnston and was built for the Bank of Ireland, possibly for domestic use. By the mid-nineteenth century they were in use as solicitor's offices, like many of the neighbouring buildings in this enclave. The modesty of the unadorned upper walls is contrasted by the well-executed ashlar granite arcaded ground floor, which manifests skilled artisanship. The streetscape is enhanced by the retention of granite paving and stone setts, which contribute to the overall heritage value of the composition.

John Foster, 1st Baron Oriel (1740 – 23 August 1828) was an Irish peer and politician, who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer of Ireland and as the last Speaker of the Irish House of Commons.

Foster was returned in 1801 to the new United Kingdom parliament as a member for County Louth, and from 1804 to 1806 was Irish Chancellor of the Exchequer under Pitt. From 1807 to 1813 he was second Commissioner in the Irish Treasury and from 1807 to 1812 one of the Lord Commissioners of the UK Treasury.

In 1821 he was created a peer of the United Kingdom as Baron Oriel, of Ferrard, in the County of Louth, and died on 23 August 1828.



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