Arus Brugha — O'Connell Street Upper

Corner-sited five-storey retail outlet, built c.1925, having three-bay side elevations and single-bay shallow recessed canted corner. Now in use as a fast food restaurant. L-shaped copper roof hidden behind parapet, hipped to east and pitched to north. Granite ashlar walls , with attic storey at fourth floor above a protruding entablature. Moulded string course to base of parapet. Balustraded balcony to central second floor bay on east elevation. Bronze memorial roundel to Cathal Brugha (1874-1922) on chamfered elevation above first floor window. Street signs to O'Connell Street Upper and Cathedral Street at first floor level. Polished brown granite clad platband to ground floor having a brown granite keystone over main entrance on corner elevation. Broken bands of black polished granite to west and south ground floor elevations, having a low granite plinth under large square-headed openings with uPVC windows. Square-headed window openings with single-pane timber sash windows having granite clad sills to fourth, third, second and first floors. Three bays to west elevation, arranged as twin windows on either side of a tripartite central window. Three bays to south elevation arranged in a twin set of windows to west and two bays of single windows. Square-headed door openings with recent fittings, main entrance door at ground floor at canted corner bay with secondary entrance at ground floor of no.11. Side entrance on Cathedral Street to upper floors, having rolled shuttering utilised by Revenue offices to east. Eighteenth century granite kerbing to Cathedral Street, modern granite paving c.2003 to O'Connell Street Upper.