s for the Local Government Board, Boards of
Trade and of Public Works and other bodies.

It is, however, to the south of the river that the most interesting
buildings are found. Crossing O'Connell bridge, the short Westmoreland
Street strikes into a thoroughfare which traverses the entire city
parallel with the river, and is known successively (from west to east)
as James, Thomas, High, Castle, Dame, College and Great Brunswick
streets. At the end of Westmoreland Street a fine group of buildings is
seen--Trinity College on the left and the Bank of Ireland on the right.
Barely half a mile westward down Dame Street, rises the Castle, and 300
yds. beyond this again is the cathedral of Christ Church. These, with
the second cathedral of St Patrick, are more conveniently described in
the inverse order.

Christ Church.

The cathedral of Christ Church, or Holy Trinity, the older of the two
Protestant cathedrals in the possession of which Dublin is remarkable,
was founded by Sigtryg, a Christianized king of the Danes of Dublin, in
1038, but dates its elevation to a deanery and chapter from 1541. It was
restored in 1870-1877 by G. E. Street at the charge of Mr Henry Roe, a
merchant of Dublin, who also presented the Synod House. The restoration
involved the complete rebuilding of the choir and the south side of the
nave, but the model of the ancient building was followed with great
care. The crypt embodies remains of the founder's work; the rest is
Transitional Norman and Early English in style. Among the monuments is
that of Strongbow, the invader of Ireland, to whom the earlier part of
the superstructure (1170) is due. Here the tenants of the church lands
were accustomed to pay their rents. The monument was injured by the fall
of one of the cathedral walls, but was repaired. By its side is a
smaller tomb, ascribed to Strongbow's son, whom his father killed for
showing cowardice in battle. Synods were occasionally held in this
church, and parliaments also, before the Commons' Hall was destroyed in
1566 by an accidental explosion of gunpowder. Here also the pretender
Lambert Simnel was crowned.

St Patrick's.

A short distance south from Christ Church, through the squalid quarter
of Nicholas and Patrick streets, stands the other Protestant cathedral
dedicated to St Patrick, the foundation of which was an attempt to
supersede the older foundation of Christ Church, owing to jealousies,
both ecclesiastical and political