More than €700,000 is being pumped into protecting some of the oldest buildings in Dublin city.

A number of properties have benefitted - including a bank in Inchicore and a house dating back to the late 1600s on Aungier Street.

More than 50 houses will also benefit from the new Built Heritage Jobs Leverage Scheme.

It aims to put an emphasis on job creation particularly in the specialist craft sector.

Architect Sunni Goodson has been working on the Aungier Street project.

She says they are now finding out what life was like on the street 350 years ago.