Fancy a view of the Grand Canal from your bedroom? This two-bedroom, top-floor apartment is smartly appointed and offers a desirable D2 address.
While Baggot Street and its environs are considered part of the central business district, this is strictly a Monday-to-Friday setup.
At the weekends, this corner of central Dublin is blissfully quiet with walks along the canal down to the Docklands or as far west as the Midlands.
Address: 4 24 Herbert Place, Dublin 2, Co. Dublin, D02 PY06
Asking price: €625,000
Agent: Lansdowne Partnership
With the rehabilitation of Wilton Place and Wilton Park, you can amble up the waterway, watch tourists embark the barges that moor on the south bank of the canal opposite Patrick Kavanagh’s statue.
The Monaghan poet and writer had a great affection for the waterway, composing Lines Written on a Seat on the Grand Canal, from the park bench where now sits a bronze statue of the poet.
On the week in which Bloomsday is celebrated, it is worth noting that Kavanagh was there in the first celebration of June 16th, 1954, when Brian O’Nolan, better known by his pen name Flann O’Brien, set off with Kavanagh and Anthony Cronin, and a cousin of James Joyce, a dentist named Tom Joyce, on a pilgrimage to visit the sites in James Joyce’s epic novel Ulysses.
It was the brainchild of John Ryan, an artist, publisher and pub owner – he owned The Bailey on Duke Street at the time.
The idea was to retrace the steps of Leopold Bloom and other characters from the novel.
It has become an annual literary celebration observed on June 16th to commemorate the events and characters of James Joyce's iconic 1922 novel, Ulysses.
It is named after the novel's protagonist, Leopold Bloom, and marks the exact date—June 16, 1904—when the book's events take place, and Joyce had his first date with his future wife, Nora Barnacle.
Herbert Place itself was home to Anglo-Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen, who was born here in 1899.
She famously chronicled the street's atmosphere in her 1942 memoir, Seven Winters.
An elegant row of Georgian houses of two different heights, all with granite steps leading up to their front doors, number 24 has been subdivided into flats with one at each level.
Being a protected structure, there is no lift in the building. It’s a walk-up, but the Georgians designed their stair risers to be low, so it’s an easy climb.
Smartly appointed, number 4 occupies the top floor and includes access to a private roof terrace at the back of the house.
This frames the rooftops of this historic quarter, including the bell tower of the nearby Pepper Canister church, where concerts take place.
Extending to about 62 square metres, the two-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment has a split-level living cum dining area with the lounge set around an open fire.
The dining area enjoys a tall eight-over-eight window that washes the room in light.
The kitchen is up a level, accessed via two short flights of steps. It has cherrywood units and a splashback of restful blue tiles.
The bedrooms are to the front. Both doubles the rooms enjoy canal bank views and have six-over-six windows.
There’s yoga in Wilton Park a couple of times a week, cafes, restaurants and bars aplenty both on Upper Baggot Street and around Grand Canal Dock.
Agents Lansdowne Partnership is seeking €625,000 for the BER-exempt property.
