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Welcome to Streets Broad and Narrow. You can read about the site here, and see the most recent posts below.

• Linenhall Terrace
  Connecting Linenhall Parade to Coleraine Street, through the site of the old Linen Hall Barracks. Named at the same time and…
• Linenhall Parade
  Linenhall Parade was built in the mid-1920s on the site of the Linen Hall Barracks, itself built alongside the eighteenth-century Linen…
• Copeland Avenue
  Copeland Avenue, running from the Malahide Road to the Howth Road, has its origins in the plans for a main road…
• Fish Street
  The former name of Castleforbes Road, renamed in 1924..
• Castleforbes Road
  Running from the North Wall to Sheriff Street, Castleforbes Road was originally called ‘Fish Street’. The street dates from the mid-eighteenth…
• Drury Street – a rose by any other name?
  With Drury Street in the news recently, I thought I’d write up the history of the naming of the street. And…
• Drury Street
  Running parallel to George’s Street, Drury Street dates to the mid-17th century. It appears on De Gomme’s map of 1673 as…
• Griffith Avenue
  One of the grandest roads on the north side, Griffith Avenue was laid out in the 1920s, and had its origins…
• When Carey told on Skin-the-goat…
  What connects the Dubliners, the Phoenix Park Murders, and the name of a laneway in Ballybough? The latest entry is for…