Four Courts, Inns Quay

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On 13 March 1786 the foundation stone of the Four Courts was laid by the fourth Duke of Rutland, Lord Lieutenant, integrating the Four Courts into the plans for the Public Record Office on Inns Quay, where work had commenced in 1776. Ten years later the building was sufficiently completed for the courts to sit, and the work was finished in 1801. The building was severely bombarded in 1922 when the Civil War broke out, and the Public Record Office Fire meant that many records of the country were destroyed.