prominent peers. The squares were Merrion Square, St Stephen's Green, Fitzwilliam Square, Ruthland Square (now called Parnell Square) and Mountjoy Square. Many of the townhouses in these squares are now offices while some have been demolished. See also English country house Great house Manor house Stately home List of house typesNotes Further reading Cunningham, Peter. Handbook of London Past and Present, London, 1850 (see section 20: "Palaces & Chief Houses of the Nobility & Gentry in the Present Day).London's Mansions by David Pearce, (1986) The London Rich by Peter Thorold (1999) Daisy, Countess of Fingall. Seventy Years Young''. First published 1937 (autobiography of an Irish peer's wife, covering the late nineteenth and early twentieth century). Ros, Maggi, Life in Elizabethan England: A London and Westminster Directory, 2008 External links Housing House types in the United Kingdom House styles Architecture in the United Kingdom