Running north from Cork Street, Dublin 8, Reuben Street was developed in the early 1900s.
In 1903 the houses were advertised as ‘wonderful value’ at ‘£220 each’.1
The street was taken in charge by the Corporation on 12 December 1904.2
The name presumably derives from the location of the street close to ‘Little Jerusalem’, the Jewish area of the city, but if anyone knows anything more I’d be happy to hear from them.
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.
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…
A former name for the part of Railway Street that runs from Marlborough Street to Gardiner Street.
