Crampton Court

With an entrance on Dame Street, at the Olympia Theatre, the earliest reference to this laneway is in June 1637, when it was mentioned in the City Assembly Roll, described as ‘the way leadinge from the Custome house¹ … to Damastrete‘.²

The first reference to the name appears in Shaw’s parochial survey of 1745. ³

The laneway is named for Philip Crampton, who served as Lord Mayor in 1758, and who owned property, and lived, here.⁴

In 1905 the Corporation’s Paving Committee ordered that ‘name plates’ be erected at the Dame Street entrance.⁵

1. See the entry here. ↩︎
2. CARD, vol III, p. 330. ↩︎
3. PROI Wood 2/23/10/1, ‘W. Shaw Mason’s MSS’. Accessed on Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland https://virtualtreasury.ie/item/PROI-Wood-2-23-10-1 (25 February 2025). Repository: Public Record Office of Ireland (Reconstruction of Collections Destroyed, 1922). ↩︎
4. Rev’d C.T. M’Cready, Dublin street names : dated and explained (Dublin, 1892). ↩︎
5. Reports 1905/80. ↩︎