Merrion Hotel is a hotel in

Dublin Dublin is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. Situated on Dublin Bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, and is bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, pa ...

Ireland Ireland (, ; ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe. Geopolitically, the island is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially Names of the Irish state, named Irelan ...

, which comprises a block of four terraced houses on Upper Merrion Street, built in the 1760s by

Charles Monck, 1st Viscount Monck Charles Stanley Monck, 1st Viscount Monck, was born in 1754 and died on 9 June 1802. He was the 1st son of Thomas Monck MP, by his wife, Judith Mason, daughter of Robert Mason, of Mason Brook. He was MP for Gorey from 1790 to 1798. He gained the ...

, for wealthy Irish merchants and nobility. He lived in No. 22, which became known as Monck House. The first of these Georgian houses (No. 24),

Mornington House Mornington House was the Dublin social season Georgian residence of the Earls of Mornington at 24 Merrion Street, close to Leinster House. Arthur Wellesley, the fourth son of the Earl of Mornington, later a Field Marshal (1813), then 1st Duk ...

, is the reputed birthplace of

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington Field marshal (United Kingdom), Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (; 1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852) was a British Army officer and statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures in Britain during t ...

. It is half owned by Lochlann Quinn. The hotel also incorporates, as a separate business, Dublin's only 2-star Michelin restaurant, Restaurant Patrick Guilbaud.

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