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Christchurch Place is the open square and short street that fronts Christ Church Cathedral on the rise above Wood Quay, marking one of the oldest inhabited corners of Dublin. The ground here was the heart of the Viking and medieval city, and the modern road follows lines of settlement that stretch back more than a thousand years. For much of its history the area around the place was a dense warren of medieval lanes and houses, swept away in stages by road widening and the redevelopment of the t...