Ascal Siol Martan

The Casino at Marino — William Chambers' neoclassical masterpiece from 1759, with sixteen rooms concealed behind what appears to be a single-room temple — is the architectural jewel, but Marino's broader significance lies in its housing estate. Built by Dublin Corporation in the late 1920s as Ireland's first large-scale planned suburb, the garden-city-influenced layout of 1,300 houses set a template for affordable housing in the new Irish state.