Grandeur on the waterfront: Regency residence opposite Dublin’s Royal Irish Yacht Club

If you ask people familiar with the bustling coastal town of Dún Laoghaire in South Co Dublin where the town centre is, most opt for the main intersection at Upper and Lower Georges Streets where it bisects Marine Road and Patrick Street and is dominated by St Michael’s Church on one side and a shopping centre on the other.

It might therefore surprise some readers that the true heart of the original Dún Leary fishing ...