Pembroke Quay

A previous name of Sarsfield Quay, renamed in 1885.

Pembroke Quay is shown, unnamed, on Rocque’s map, but appears in Harris’s History and Antiquities² and in Scalé’s 1773 revision of Rocque.²

M’Cready suggests, plausibly, that the name was from Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke, who was Lord Lieutenant (1707-8).³

1. Walter Harris, The history and antiquities of the city of Dublin, from the earliest accounts … (Dublin, 1766).
2. John Rocque, An accurate survey of the city and suburbs of Dublin, with additions and improvements, engraved by Bernard Scalé (Dublin, 1756).
3. Patrick A. Walsh and T. G. Doyle, ‘Herbert, Thomas’, Dictionary of Irish Biography (https://doi.org/10.3318/dib.003958.v1).