Waterford Street
No longer in existence, Waterford Street was the last name given to the street running from Marlborough Street to Gardiner Street. See the entry for Railway Street for the history.
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Bolton Parade
This street, off Bolton Street, was originally called Cross Lane, and is shown with that name on Rocque. (There was another Bolton Parade, off Dorset Street, I think.) In 1894, some of the local ratepayers applied to the Corporation to have the name changed to “European Place’. According to the memorialists, the street had ‘for…
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Chapter Place
Originally called Mitre Alley, the name was changed to Chapter Street by the Corporation in 1869. An old street, Rocque shows it as ‘Myter Alley’. ’Chapter’ comes from the chapter or Chapter House of the adjoining St Patrick’s Cathedral. Although Chapter ‘Street’ was the official name – it’s listed as that in Thom’s from 1870…
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Hutton’s Place
Off Summerhill, this very short lane has a convoluted history, name-wise. Listed as ‘Hutton’s Lane’ in 1833, by 1841 it was called ‘Mountjoy Place, Lower’. That name lasted until 1861, after which it reverted to ‘Hutton’s Lane’. In 1878 the Corporation decided to change the name to ‘Hutton’s Place’, no doubt because of the ‘evil…
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Byrne’s Lane (Clontarf)
This lane ran west from the Clontarf Road, more-or-less in line with the driveway into the Danesfort apartments. The area was subject to a compulsory purchase order, granted in 1948, and implemented in 1950.1 The land and buildings were owned by the Vernon Estate, with most leased to a Dermot McMorrough. McMorrough himself occupied a…