Report of the Housing Committee of Dublin Corporation
Report of the Housing Committee presented to the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of Dublin. The report relates to awards of compensation to tenement dwellers in the Beresford Street and Church Street areas. The report also submits a ‘revised scheme for workmen’s dwellings’ at these locations. The report was submitted by C.J. Murray, Chairman of the Committee, City Hall, Dublin. The pamphlet is paginated pp 59-66. A coloured plan for the area is appended to the publication. The explanatory not
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- 22 Jan. 1914-5 Apr. 1916
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- 6
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- 8 pp + 1 plan; Printed
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- Report of the Housing Committee presented to the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of Dublin. The report relates to awards of compensation to tenement dwellers in the Beresford Street and Church Street areas. The report also submits a ‘revised scheme for workmen’s dwellings’ at these locations. The report was submitted by C.J. Murray, Chairman of the Committee, City Hall, Dublin. The pamphlet is paginated pp 59-66. A coloured plan for the area is appended to the publication. The explanatory note extant on the plan reads: ‘This plan provides for No. 24, Four Roomed Houses; No. 98 Three Roomed Houses; No. 34, Two Roomed Cottages. Total, 156’. Scale: 60 feet to 1 inch.
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- Irish Capuchin Archives
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- Irish Capuchin Archives > Papers of St. Mary of the Angels, Capuchin Friary, Church Street, Dublin > Relationships with Local Communities > The Church Street Tenement Disaster (1913)
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- Church Street and Beresford Street Scheme.
- CHURCH ST. HOUSING SCHEME. BIRD'S EYE. VIEW. FROM NE.
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THE BUILDING NEWS, APRIL 5, 1916. Church Street and Beresford Street Scheme. This dealt with an area of over three acres in extent. In the month of January, 1912, the Improvements Committee submitted a Report in which it stated that an inspection of the area showed "that the conditions of human existence in all the courts and passages comprised in the area are most deplorable. Apart from the insanitary conditions of the houses on the boundary streets of the area, the place is honeycombed with narrow lanes and courts occupied by several families. These lanes and court-ways are close and narrow, thereby shutting out the necessary light and air required for healthy conditions of human existence. The houses situate in these places have no back-yards, and in some instances there is only one convenience for several families." "The area was insanitary and that all the houses, courts and laneways were unfit for human habitation, and that the evils connected with same and the sanitary defects in such area could not be effectively remedied otherwise than by an improvement scheme, for the re-arrangement and reconstruction of the streets and houses within the area." CHURCH ST. HOUSING SCHEME. BIRD'S EYE. VIEW. FROM NE.