fitzwilliam square

Off Fitzwilliam Street is Fitzwilliam Square, the smallest, latest and best preserved of Dublin's Georgian squares. The earliest houses date as far back as 1714 but the square was not completed until 1830. Within their unity of style the houses display a constant variety of detail notably in their doorways and fanlights and also in the ornamental ironwork such as doorknockers, boot-scrapers and balconies. The artist Jack Butler Yeats lived at No 18.