Love’s Charity Ground

Until the end of the 19th century, Love’s Charity was the name given to the area bordered by Clonliffe Road on the north, Ballybough Road on the east, the Royal Canal on the south, and Jones’s Road to the west.¹

Love’s Charity Trust was established in 1726, by the will of Joseph Love, with the objective of ‘apprenticing to masters of the Established Church Protestant boys who are educated in the several charity schools in Dublin’.²

In 1829, the Trustees purchased ‘twelve acres of land at Ballybough, county Dublin, portions of which were let on leases for 500 years at £75 and £73 16s 10d respectively’. These lands came to be known as Love’s Charity Ground.

The leases were in the possession of various people from 1829 on.³

For the development of the lands from the 1880s on, see the various entries.

1. OS 6″, 1937.
2. ‘Educational Endowments Commission: Love’s Charity’ in Dublin Evening Mail, 19 March 1886, p. 3.
3. ‘In the matter of John Bradley an Insolvent’ in Saunders’s News-Letter, 22 October 1836, p. 4.