Reviewing some draft posts, I posted the entry for Doon Avenue and some nearby streets in Cabra. The derivation of the names of the streets is not clear, but it looks like three of the names derive from places in Donegal, and two from the name of the house, on the grounds of which the streets were laid out.
I’d love to hear from anyone who knows more about the origins of the names.
What connects the Dubliners, the Phoenix Park Murders, and the name of a laneway in Ballybough? The latest entry is for Hughes’s Avenue, Ballybough, which originally bore the name ‘Carey’s Lane’. It was changed because of the notoriety of James Carey, the informer, even though it had no connection with him. Carey features in the…
In Cabra, Quarry Road was originally called Quarry Lane, and is shown as such as early as 1837 on the first Ordnance Survey 6” map. On the map, two quarried areas are shown on the northern end of the lane. It was still called Quarry Lane in 1902, when part of the lane was renamed…
Listening recently to a episode from the Napoleonic Wars Podcast about Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz prompted me to write up the entry for Railway Street, Mecklenburgh Street being one of its previous names. It turned out to be more complicated than I expected, but the history of the name of the street is the history of…
The recent anniversary of the death of Michael William Balfe, on 20 October, prompted me to look into the history of one of the two streets named after him, Balfe Street, off Grafton Street. Balfe is remembered in the street name and in the name of the bar in the Westbury Hotel, and also in…
In Cabra. I think that this name derives from the townland of that name in Donegal,1 as the names of two other streets in this development are also linked to that county. See the entries for Ardmore Avenue and Doon Avenue.
With Drury Street in the news recently, I thought I’d write up the history of the naming of the street. And let’s say that I’m sceptical – to put it politely – of the idea that the Drury in question is Sir William Drury, who died in 1579.
