Ossory Road
Off the North Strand, at Newcomen Bridge, Ossory Road runs along the railway line on the north bank of the Royal Canal. It remained unnamed until 1882, when Michael Ralph, of North Strand Road, who owned the little property that there was on the road, asked the Corporation to name it ‘Ossory Road’.1
’Ossory’ presumably comes from the medieval kingdom, and current dioceses, of that name, so perhaps Mr Ralph had a connection with that area?
At that time the name applied to the portion from Newcomen Bridge to the railway line, but it later extended to West Road.
- Reports 1882/304.