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In 1901 William Sheridan is a draper in his late 20s originally from Cavan. He is a member of the Church of Ireland and his wife, Sarah B, is a member of the Society of Friends (Quaker)born in Cork. They have a one year old baby boy named Robert, and William's sister, Margaret also lives with them. The family also consists of Sarah's widowed father, Robert Heall, who is a retired grocer in his mid-50s. Robert is listed as a Presbyterian so the family has an interesting mix of protestantism.
An interesting letter to the Irish Times gives the following detail for the structure. "There is strong evidence that 61 Thomas Street was constructed before 1682 by the prominent Dublin bricklayer/developer Thomas Brown as a purpose-built inn then known by the sign of the “Golden Last”. The scale of the front reception rooms of this impressive, four-storey, inn are still stunning, as is the survival of early timber panelling recently revealed on the first floor.
The street facade was rebuilt in 1779/80 and is a fine example of classic Dublin Georgian which has miraculously survived later degradations and partial demolition in the 1980s. This new facade was probably built by the merchant Airy Jessop who we know bought and rebuilt the timber-framed house next door at No 62, which is also to be demolished as part of the proposed office block development. These 18th-century layers, which include the insertion of a carriage archway and vaulted chamber underneath mirror the alterations made to the recently conserved Fade Bank building nearby at No 36 Thomas Street, and are a critical part of the legibility of the structure.
It is presumably one of the salvaged “original feature structural oak beams” of the earlier cage-work house at No 62, incorporated into the alterations made to No 61 in the 1780s, that the promotional article boasts will feature in the reception area of the office block along with “restored 17th-century brick and lime walls”."
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/demolishing-dublin-s-heritage...
