In Ranelagh, off Merton Drive, and built in the late 1930s, the name is taken from the townland in which it is located.1
There are several other streets in the area with Cullenswood in their the name.
It was taken in charge by the Corporation in 1939.2
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.
The original name of St Mary’s Terrace.
A former name of Saint Mary’s Terrace, renamed in 1884.
Originally named ‘Kingsland Park’, this street in Portobello was renamed by the Corporation in 1875. Kingsland Place was built on the grounds of Portobello Gardens. In 1866 the Corporation was asked by Mr Frederick Stokes to take in charge ‘the new streets called Kingsland park and Florence Street, near Portobello’. In October 1871 the Kingsland…
Vernon Avenue runs north from the seafront to the junction with Sybil Hill, and then turns west as far as Castle Avenue. A laneway at the time, it is shown on Rocque’s map of 1760, but is not named. Taylor’s map of 1816 names it ‘Green Lane’, as does an estate map of 1823. The…
One of four streets off Phibsborough Road named for the four provinces of Ireland, Ulster Street was developed in the late 1890s. In October 1897 the Corporation’s Waterworks Committee directed that the ‘main in Ulster Street shall be extended for the purpose of supplying some new houses which have been directed there’.1 First listed in…
