This is the name given to a terrace of houses built in the early 1900s by Mr P. Shortall, at Annesley Place, off the North Strand.
It’s not clear what houses are referred to but there were a number of houses built on Annesely Place between 1897, when several vacant plots are shown on the Ordnance Survey map,1 and 1907, when all those vacant lots had been built on.2
The Corporation agreed the name in September 1904.3
The original name of a terrace of houses on Adelaide Road, renamed Earlsfort Place in 1891.
Foster Street was the name given, until the 1890s, to different parts of Ballybough Road. M’Cready gives 1849 as the date, but it appears as early as 1832 in a newspaper report, applied to the houses to the north of Clarke Bridge, as far as to what is now Foster Terrace.1 The first entry in…
This terrace of five houses on Adelaide Road, next to the Eye & Ear, was originally called ‘Salem Place’. M’Cready dates it to 1848, but the houses are listed in Thom’s for 1847. The earliest map I can find it on is from 1883. Salem is a place in the Bible, and of course Salem,…
