Complex sentence: He seems to have preferred to live in Dublin City rather than at Merrion Castle, which was then some distance from the city, and died at his town house in the parish of St. Nicholas Within, near Christ Church Cathedral.
Split into simpler sentences: He seems to have preferred to live in Dublin City rather than at Merrion Castle, which was then some distance from the city. He died at his town house in the parish of St. Nicholas Within, near Christ Church Cathedral.