Running from Liffey Street West to Arran Quay, Sarsfield Quay was originally called Pembroke Quay.
It was renamed by the Corporation by a resolution on 2 November 1885.1
When the motion was proposed at the meeting, an amendment was put ‘to refer the proposal to the Paving and Lighting Committee to ascertain whether the proposed change met the wishes of local inhabitants’. (There was no requirement at the time for a plebescite to to be held.)
This amendment was voted down and the change of name was adopted.
Report of the change in name to Sarsfield Quay, in the Cork Weekly Herald, 7 November 1885.
The Paving and Lighting Committee duly reported that ‘the thoroughfare hitherto know as Pembroke Quay has been renamed Sarsfield Quay in accordance with the resolution of the Municipal Council’.2
The name is for Patrick Sarsfield, a nationalist hero from his role in the siege, and subsequent, Treaty of Limerick.3
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