Not just demolished or rebuilt, but lost even in terms of its exact location, a residential structure connected to one of Dublin's most significant medieval institutions, known now only through a single scholarly reference.

The building in question was a Vicars' house, a residence associated with the vicars choral of St Patrick's Cathedral. Vicars choral were men appointed to sing the daily liturgical offices on behalf of cathedral canons who were often absent or holding multiple benefices; housing them close to the cathedral was a practical necessity. According to historian H.B. Clarke, this particular house was replaced around 1530 by the Chantor's manse, the Chantor being the cathedral official responsible for overseeing its musical and liturgical life. The replacement date places the transition firmly in the late medieval period, just before the upheavals of the Reformation would begin to reshape ecclesiastical Dublin in ways both institutional and physical. Clarke's reference, cited in his 2002 work, does not pinpoint the site beyond locating it broadly within the cathedral's immediate neighbourhood, designated in his mapping as grid square J6.

Because the site has not been precisely located, there is nothing specific to visit or identify on the ground. The area around St Patrick's Cathedral has been substantially altered over the centuries, through post-Reformation changes to cathedral properties, later urban development, and the extensive Victorian restoration of the cathedral itself carried out under the patronage of Benjamin Lee Guinness from the 1860s onward. What the Clarke reference offers is less a destination than a prompt to look at the surviving streetscape around the cathedral with some awareness that its medieval residential geography was once considerably more layered. The Liberties quarter retains traces of its old complexity in its street patterns and plot boundaries, and knowing that minor ecclesiastical buildings once occupied uncertain corners of it adds something to an otherwise ordinary walk.