Abbey Presbyterian Church (L) is best known to Dubliners as ‘Findlater’s Church’ after the Dublin merchant who paid for the building. It was designed in the gothic style for a congregation which had, for the previous two centuries, worshipped in Meetinghouse Lane beside the old chapter house of St. Mary’s Abbey. Its graceful spire is one of Dublin’s landmarks.

The two fine houses at Nos 18 and 19 (L) have recently been completely refurbished. No 19 contains the offices and meeting rooms of the Irish Writer’s Centre. The larger house at No 18 was opened in 1991 as the Dublin Writers Museum. The museum includes: memorabilia; portraits; manuscript items and rare editions of the works of Dublin writers as well as: a library of rare books; lecture and exhibition rooms and a children’s room. Dublin is particularly celebrated for the many world-famous writers who were born or lived here, including four winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature: George Bernard Shaw; William Butler Yeats; Samuel Beckett and most recently, Seamus Heaney. The museum was established to interpret this tradition and the lives, works and literary heritage of its writers. The building itself is a fine example of eighteenth century craftsmanship, with ornate plasterwork, an impressive central staircase and a magnificent gallery on the first floor.