Streets A-Z
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Abbey Court (Killester)
A continuation of Abbey Park, the houses were built in 1987(?) and advertised for sale at €32,500.
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Abbey Park
Running from Killester Avenue to Abbey Court, Abbey Park is named (presumably) from Killester Abbey, which was located nearby to the east, where the Killester Park houses are now. In…
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Abbey Street
Abbey Street appears, albeit unnamed, on De Gomme’s map of 1673. By 1728, as it appears on Brookings’ map, the street was well established, running west from Marlborough Street to…
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Abbeyfield (Killester)
Running from St Brigid’s Road to Middle Third, Abbeyfield is named (presumably) from Killester Abbey, which was located nearby to the west. It is one of three lots of houses…
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Abbeyfield (Milltown Road)
This street was built in the early 1990s on part of the Jesuits’ land in Milltown. In 1995 the Irish Independent described the new houses as ‘Perfect Home with the…
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Achill Road
A cul-de-sac running north from Home Farm Road, this street is one of several in the area named after islands. CHECK THE MINUTES FOR THE DECISION The street is shown…
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Adare Avenue
Developed in the 1960s, and named for Adare Castle, County Limerick, this is one of several streets in this development in Bonnybrook named after castles. In a report of 15…
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Adare Drive
Developed in the 1960s, and named for Adare Castle, County Limerick, this is one of several streets in this development in Bonnybrook named after castles. See the entry for Adare Avenue for…
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Adare Green
Developed in the 1960s, and named for Adare Castle, County Limerick, this is one of several streets in this development in Bonnybrook named after castles. See the entry for Adare Avenue for…
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Adare Park
Developed in the 1960s, and named for Adare Castle, County Limerick, this is one of several streets in this development in Bonnybrook named after castles. See the entry for Adare Avenue for…
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Adare Road
Developed in the 1960s, and named for Adare Castle, County Limerick, this is one of several streets in this development in Bonnybrook named after castles. See the entry for Adare Avenue for…
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Addison Place
Located off Botanic Avenue, Glasnevin, Addison Place was described in 1904 as ‘a bye-lane or passage, having no formation or drainage’. The name ‘Addison’ comes from the writer and politician…
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Addison Road
Running west from Annesley Bridge Road, this cul-de-sac was developed between 1897 and 1902 on a plot of land to the north of the Vitriol Works at Ballybough. The road…
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Addison Street
A previous (short-lived) name for Addison Road, Fairview.
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Adrian Avenue
A cul-de-sac running north-west from Clareville Road, Terenure, the houses were built in the 1930s. Although the street first appears in Thom’s in 1941, with sixteen houses listed, the street…
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Aideen Avenue
Running west from Derravagh Road to Kimmage Road Lower, this street dates from 1949/1950. The entry in Thom’s for 1949 says that Aideen Avenue ran from ‘Kimmage Road to Mount…
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Aideen Drive
Renamed from Neagh Road. This street was originally developed as an extension to Neagh Road in 1949, when a number of private houses were built. The first houses on Neagh…
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Annamoe Road
Running from Hanlon’s Corner to Cabra Road, this road was formerly part of Quarry Lane. See the entry for Quarry Road for this. In 1902 the Corporation received a letter…
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Ardmore Avenue
In the same development as Everton Avenue, I think that the name of this street derives from the townland of that name in County Donegal,1 as the names of two…
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Aston Place
Running from Fleet Street to Aston Quay, the name of this laneway was changed from Lee’s Lane in 1884. The laneway appears as ‘Lees Lane’ in Rocque, and also in…
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Avondale Road
Running from the North Circular Road to Monck Place, Phibsboro, this street was built by the Great Western Railway Company in the late 1870s. In December 1880 the Corporation’s Paving…
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Balfe Street
Formerly ‘Pitt Street’, this is one of two streets in Dublin named for Michael William Balfe (1808–70), composer and musician, best known for his opera ‘The Bohemian Girl’, and the…
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Barryscourt Road
Developed in the 1960s, and named for Barryscourt Castle, County Cork, this is one of several streets in this development in Bonnybrook named after castles. Since 4 October 1970, the…
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Bedford Street
A previous name for Nicholas Avenue, Dublin 1. The name derives from John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, Lord Lieutenant from 1756-61, and Chancellor of the University of Dublin (Trinity) from…
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Beresford Lane
Beresford Lane, which runs down the side of the old Labour Exchange, formerly Trinity Church, on Lower Gardiner Street, was originally called Moland Street. The street appears to have been…
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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,…
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Bradley’s Lane
A former name of Sackville Avenue, off Ballybough Road. Shown as Bradley’s Lane on a map of 1794,1 it was called Love Lane as early as 1828.2
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Bride Road
See the entry for Bull Alley Street.
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Bull Alley Street
This is one of three streets built between 1894 and 1901 as part of the redevelopment, by the Iveagh Trust, of the area around St Patrick’s Cathedral. In December 1903,…
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Bunratty Avenue
Developed in the 1960s, and named for Bunratty Castle, County Clare, this is one of several streets in this development in Bonnybrook named after castles. See the entry for Adare Avenue for…
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Bunratty Drive
Developed in the 1960s, and named for Bunratty Castle, County Clare, this is one of several streets in this development in Bonnybrook named after castles. See the entry for Adare Avenue for…
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Bunratty Road
Developed in the 1960s, and named for Bunratty Castle, County Clare, this is one of several streets in this development in Bonnybrook named after castles. See the entry for Adare Avenue for…
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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,…
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Cadogan Road
Running west from Annesley Bridge Road, this cul-de-sac, like the nearby Addison Road, was developed between 1897 and 1902 on a plot of land to the north of the Vitriol…
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Caledon Road
A road built off the East Wall Road in the early 1900s, the name was proposed by the builder, Mr Thomas Archer, and approved by the Corporation on 6 June…
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Capel Street
Capel Street runs south from Bolton Street to the quays. Capel Street, and the surrounding area, was developed by Humphrey Jervis, a Cromwellian immigrant, who, along with some others, bought…
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Carey’s Lane (Ballybough)
A former name of Hughes’ Avenue, it’s listed first in Thom’s in 1855, as having eighteen cottages.1 The last entry is in 1875.2
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Cathedral Street
Running from O’Connell Street to Marlborough Street, down the side of the Pro-Cathedral, for which it is named, this street went by three other names previously. It appears as ‘Stable…
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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…
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Chapter Street
See the entry for Chapter Place.
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Charlemont Road
Charlemont Road runs north east from the Howth Road to the Malahide road, in Clontarf. Colm Lennon identifies Charlemont Road (north and south) and Marino Avenue as different roadways but,…
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Charleville Mall
On the Royal Canal, running from Newcomen Bridge to Clarke’s Bridge, Charleville Mall was laid out in the 1820s. By 1829 it was developed enough for houses to be advertised…
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Connaught Street
Off Phibsborough Road, this is one of four streets, forming, more-or-less, a square, named for the four provinces of Ireland. It’s shown on Taylor’s map of 1816 as Forsagh Lane,1…
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Corporation Street
One of two previous names for James Joyce Street, renamed from Mabbot Street in 1911, the name derived from “Corporation Buildings”, which stood on the street,
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Crampton Court
With an entrance on Dame Street, at the Olympia Theatre, the earliest reference to this laneway is in June 1637, when it was mentioned in the City Assembly Roll, described…
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Cross Lane
The original name of Bolton Parade, changed in 1894.
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Cullenswood Gardens
In Ranelagh, off Merton Drive, and built in the late 1930s, the name is taken from the townland in which it is located. There are several other streets in the…
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Dispensary Lane
A previous name of Dorset Lane.
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Donore Avenue
Donore Avenue is one of several streets in the City which at one time bore the name ‘Love Lane’. The street itself dates from as early as the mid-eighteenth century,…
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Doon Avenue
In Cabra, one of several streets built in the early 1900s in the grounds of Everton House. There are lots of places called Doon in various parts of the country,…
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Dorset Lane (Avenue)
Originally named Dispensary Lane, the street was renamed Dorset Avenue in 1902 at the request of the owner of the properties on the lane, Robert White, 1 North Frederick Street….
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Dunluce Road
Dunluce Road, off the Howth Road, at the junction with Castle Avenue, was built in the 1930s on the lands to the south of Furry Park House.1 The builder was…
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Eccles Lane
A previous name for Eccles Place.
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Eccles Place
A laneway running to the rere of the houses on the north side of Eccles Street, this street was listed as ‘Eccles Lane’ by Whitelaw in 1798. As reported by…
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Elephant Lane
A previous name for Cathedral Street.
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Elizabeth Street
Elizabeth Street is a continuation of Robert Street, running west from Jones’ Road, Drumcondra. I presume that the street is named for the wife of the builder, William Hall, whose…
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Ellesmere Avenue
Running north west from the North Circular Road, this is one of several streets built in the early 1900s, and taken in charge by the Corporation in 1905. See the…
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European Place
A name proposed, but not adopted, for Bolton Place, formerly Cross Lane.
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Everton Avenue
Everton Avenue, off the Old Cabra Road, is one of several streets built in the early 1900s on the lands of ‘Everton House’, a fine Victorian residence that still stands….
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Faussagh Lane
Also Faussaght lane: the original name of Connaught Street.
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Ferrycarrig Avenue
Developed in the 1960s, and named for Ferrycarrig Castle, County Wexford, this is one of several streets in this development in Bonnybrook named after castles. See the entry for Adare Avenue for…
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Ferrycarrig Drive
Developed in the 1960s, and named for Ferrycarrig Castle, County Wexford, this is one of several streets in this development in Bonnybrook named after castles. See the entry for Adare Avenue for…
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Ferrycarrig Park
Developed in the 1960s, and named for Ferrycarrig Castle, County Wexford, this is one of several streets in this development in Bonnybrook named after castles. See the entry for Adare Avenue for…
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Ferrycarrig Road
Developed in the 1960s, and named for Ferrycarrig Castle, County Wexford, this is one of several streets in this development in Bonnybrook named after castles. See the entry for Adare Avenue for…
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Fingal Place
Fingal Place, Stonnybatter, was built in 1900/01. The street was named, on the recommendation of the City Surveyor, by the Corporation on 1 April 1901. The name presumably derives from…
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Fitzroy Avenue
Running north-west from Jones’s Road, near Croke Park, Fitzroy Avenue was laid out in the early 1900s. In April 1901 houses on the street were offered to be let at…
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Florence Street
Florence Street was built on the site of the former City Basin, beside Portobello Gardens, by Mr Frederick Stokes. (See the entry for Victoria Street.) Why ‘Florence’? I’ve no idea.
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Foster Street – Ballybough Road
Foster Street was the name given, until the 1890s, to different parts of Ballybough Road. M’Cready gives 1849 as the date, but it appears as early as 1832 in a…
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Foxfield Park
Foxfield Park, off the Howth Road in Raheny, dates from the 1950s[?]. The name derives from Foxfield House, which stood on the site, and which first appears on the OS…
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Gerald Griffin Street
A name proposed, but not adopted, for O’Connell Avenue when it was being renamed in 1884. Gerald Griffin was a novelist from Limerick. His most successful work was The Collegians…
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Geraldine Street
This street, off Berkeley Street, is one of five laid out in 1868 by Arnott, Lombard, and Company. In December that year the Corporation agreed to extend the main sewer…
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Glenard Avenue
In Cabra. I think that this name derives from the townland of that name in Donegal,1 as the names of two other streets in this development are also linked to…
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Glin Avenue
Developed in the 1960s, and named for Glin Castle, County Clare, this is one of several streets in this development in Bonnybrook named after castles. See the entry for Adare Avenue for…
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Glin Crescent
Developed in the 1960s, and named for Glin Castle, County Clare, this is one of several streets in this development in Bonnybrook named after castles. See the entry for Adare Avenue for…
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Glin Drive
Developed in the 1960s, and named for Glin Castle, County Clare, this is one of several streets in this development in Bonnybrook named after castles. See the entry for Adare Avenue for…
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Glin Grove
Developed in the 1960s, and named for Glin Castle, County Clare, this is one of several streets in this development in Bonnybrook named after castles. See the entry for Adare Avenue for…
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Goldsmith Street
One of five streets built off Berkeley Road in 1868; see the entry for Geraldine Street for the dating. The name is, presumably, from Oliver Goldsmith, but I can find no evidence…
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Great Britain Street
The name of this street was changed to Parnell Street in 1911.
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Greencastle Avenue
Developed in the 1960s, and named for Greencastle, Donegal, this is one of several streets in this development in Bonnybrook named after castles. See the entry for Adare Avenue for the background.
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Greencastle Crescent
Developed in the 1960s, and named for Greencastle, Donegal, this is one of several streets in this development in Bonnybrook named after castles. See the entry for Adare Avenue for the background.
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Greencastle Road
Developed in the 1960s, and named for Greencastle, Donegal, this is one of several streets in this development in Bonnybrook named after castles. See the entry for Adare Avenue for the background.
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Grosvenor Court (Clontarf)
This is a cul-de-sac, running south from Vernon Avenue, adjoining the Central Remedial Clinic. Built on part of the lands of Verville, the houses were developed in the mid-1980s, going…
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Halliday Road
Halliday Road is one of several streets laid out in 1906/07 on the northern end of the Mount Temple Estate lands, in Stonybatter.1 The streets were developed by the Dublin…
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Hill Street
Off Summerhill, Hill Street was formerly called Temple Street Lower. Dating from the 1770s, by 1885 this part of Temple Street had gained a poor reputation. In that year the…
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Hughes’s Avenue (Ballybough)
Previously called Carey’s Lane, this street off Ballybough Road, near Ballybough Bridge, was renamed because of the hostility that the name ‘Carey’ attracted from being borne by the notorious informer…
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Hutton’s Lane
A previous name for Hutton’s Place.
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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,…
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James Joyce Street
Laid out in the early 1700s, this street was named ‘Mabbot Street’ as early as 1721, when it was reported that complaints had been received from residents of the Strand…
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Killarney Street
Killarney Street runs from the Five Lamps to Buckingham Street. It originally formed part of Lower Gloucester Street, now Sean McDermott Street, until it was renamed in 1901. The renaming…
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Kilmore Avenue
One of several streets in this estate, named after the townland on which the houses were built. For the history of the estate see the entry for Kilmore Close.
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Kilmore Close
West of Coolock village, this is one of several streets in an estate built by the Corporation in the late 1960s. The houses were offered for sale under the ‘tenant…
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Kilmore Crescent
One of several streets in this estate, for the history of which see the entry for Kilmore Close. Called ‘crescent’, this street is laid out in a completely straight line,…
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Kilmore Drive
One of several streets in this estate, named after the townland on which the houses were built. For the history of the estate see the entry for Kilmore Close.
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Kingsland Park
A previous name for Victoria Street, Portobello.
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Lee’s Lane
The original name of Aston Place, changed in 1884.
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Lee’s Lane
A previous name for Aston Place.
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Love Lane (Ballybough)
A former name of Sackville Avenue, it appears as Bradley’s Lane in a map of 1794.1 It was called ‘Love Lane’ as early as 18282 and the directory for 1834…
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Love Lane (Donore Avenue)
A former name of Donore Avenue, one several streets bore the name Love Lane at various times.
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Lynch’s Place
Located off the Phibsborough Road, just down from the North Circular Road junction, this was originally called Pinchgut Lane and was renamed in 1905. There’s no evidence of the origin…
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Mabbot Street
One of two previous names for James Joyce Street. The name derived from Gilbert Mabbot, who built a mill at the location in the late 1600s.1
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Mabel Street
One of three streets off Jones’s Road built by William Hall in the 1880s, the other two being Elizabeth Street and Robert Street. The street is named for William Hall’s…
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Macroom Avenue
Developed in the 1960s, and named for Macroom Castle, County Cork, this is one of several streets in this development in Bonnybrook named after castles. See the entry for Adare Avenue for…
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Macroom Road
Developed in the 1960s, and named for Macroom Castle, County Cork, this is one of several streets in this development in Bonnybrook named after castles. See the entry for Adare Avenue for…
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Marlborough Street
Marlborough Street, sometimes called ‘Great Marlborough Street’, was laid out in 1707, running north from the quays to Parnell Street. It is shown on Brooking’s Map of 1728. As M’Cready…
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Martin’s Lane
The original name of what is now Railway Street.
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Mecklenburgh Street
One of several former names for Railway Street. In 1761/2 the street was named ‘Mecklenburgh Street’, in honour, as M’Cready says, of Princess Sophia Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz,2 who in 1761 married…
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Mitre Alley
A previous name for Chapter Street, it was renamed in 1869. ‘Mitre’, from a bishop’s hat and from an association with the nearby St Patrick’s Cathedral.
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Moland Street
The original name of Beresford Lane. M’Cready gives, what he admits is, an uncertain explanation for the name,1 but we can be confident that it derives from the owners of…
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Mount Temple Road
One of several streets built by the Dublin Artisans’ Dwellings Company in Stonybatter, on land purchased from Lady Mount Temple, hence the name. Lady Mount Temple died in October 1901,…
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Munster Street
One of four streets in Phibsborough named for the four provinces of Ireland. Described as ‘newly made’ in 1883, this street was laid out in the late 1870s, with the…
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Neagh Road
Built on land purchased in 1925 by the Corporation from St Teresa’s Monastery, Neagh Road first appears in Thom’s in 1939 when 150 Corporation houses are recorded. The road originally…
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New Row Square
The ‘street’ dates from the late 1890s, when cottages were built there by the Dublin Artisans’ Dwellings Company. The company proposed the name, the cottages being located off New Row…
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Nicholas Avenue
Nicholas Avenue, running west from Church Street to Bow Street, was formerly called Bedford Street, named for John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, Lord Lieutenant from 1756-61, and Chancellor of…
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Norseman Place
One of several streets in Stonybatter built by the Dublin Artisans’ Dwellings Company in the early 1900s (see the entry for Mount Temple Road). The name was proposed by the…
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North Clarence Street
On the North Strand, North Clarence Street is dated by M’Cready to 1796, although the IHTA’s earliest entry is from 1824. M’Cready’s explanation of the name is that it’s for…
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North William Street
Running west off the North Strand, near Newcomen Bridge, this street, according to M’Cready, dates to 1805, but, unhelpfully, he says nothing about the origin of the name. However, it’s…
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O’Connell Avenue
Built in 1868, this street was Dublin’s first O’Connell Street; see the entry for Geraldine Street for the dating. The obvious origin of the name is Daniel O’Connell, The Liberator….
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Ormond Quay
Ormond Quay was named for James Butler (1610-88), 1st Duke of Ormond, who served as Lord Lieutenant from 1677–84. For the background to the naming, see the entry for Capel…
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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,…
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Parnell Street
Renamed from Great Britain Street. Parnell Street runs east from Capel Street to Summerhill. As far back as 1328 it was recorded as as running ‘from Oustmantown so far as…
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Paul Street
Paul Street is named for the Anglican church of Saint Paul, on the grounds of which it was constructed in 1894/95. The church building is extant. The houses here were…
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Pembroke Quay
A previous name of Sarsfield Quay, renamed in 1885. Pembroke Quay is shown, unnamed, on Rocque’s map, but appears in Harris’s History and Antiquities2 and in Scalé’s 1773 revision of…
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Pinch Gut Lane
A previous name for Lynch’s Lane, renamed in 1904.
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Pitt Street
The original name of Balfe Street. Named for William Pitt the Younger, son of the first Earl of Chatham, from whom comes Chatham Street. Pitt, as Prime Minister, was the…
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Plantation Road
‘Plantation Road’ was the name originally proposed by the Dublin Artisans’ Dwellings Company for ‘Halliday Road‘, Stonybatter.
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Quarry Lane
A previous name for Annamoe Road and for Quarry Road.
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Quarry Lane
The original name of Quarry Road, Cabra.
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Quarry Road
In Cabra, Quarry Road was originally called Quarry Lane, and is shown as such as early as 1837 on the first Ordnance Survey 6” map. On the map, two quarried…
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Railway Street
For a small, residential street in Dublin 1, Railway Street has had more names than most streets in the city. Mecklenburgh Street Originally know as Martin’s Lane or Great Martin’s…
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Reuben Street
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’. The street was…
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Robert Street
One of three streets built off Jones’s Road in the 1880s by William Hall, the other two being Elizabeth Street and Mabel Street. Hall named each of the streets after…
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Sackville Avenue
Originally named Bradley’s Lane,1 this street in Ballybough was called Love Lane as early as 1828.2 That name derived from Joseph Love, under whose will Love’s Charity was founded. It…
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Salem Place
The original name of a terrace of houses on Adelaide Road, renamed Earlsfort Place in 1891.
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Sarsfield Quay
Running from Liffey Street West to Arran Quay, Sarsfield Quay was originally called Pembroke Quay. It was renamed by the Corporation by a resolution on 2 November 1885.1 When the…
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Sarsfield Street
One of five streets built off Berkeley Road in 1868; see the entry for Geraldine Street for the dating. The name comes, presumably, from Patrick Sarsfield, of Treaty of Limerick…
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St Anthony’s Place
A laneway leading from Temple Street into Nerney’s Court, this was unnamed until 1903, when the Children’s Hospital requested that it be named St Anthony’s Place. The hospital had established…
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St Mary’s Terrace
This street, running off St Mary’s Place, Dorset Street, was originally called Walsh’s Row. The street appears on a Wide Streets Commission map of 1827, and first appears in the…
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St Vincent Street
One of five streets built off Berkeley Road in 1868; see the entry for Geraldine Street for the dating. I can find no evidence for the choice of name; none of the…
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Stable Lane (Cathedral Steet)
A previous name for Cathedral Street, and also for the adjoining Thomas Lane.
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Stable Lane (Cathedral Street)
A previous name for Cathedral Street.
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Stable Lane (Eccles Place)
A name ascribed to Eccles Place, off Dorset Street.
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Tara Street
Tara Street was built between 1879 and 1884, to link Great Brunswick Street (Pearse Street) to Butt Bridge, which was opened in 1879. The new street was built under the…
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Temple Street, Lower
The original name of Hill Street, it was renamed in 1886 at the request of the residents, as it had gained a ‘disreputable character’. The street dates to the 1770s,1…
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Tyrone Street, Upper
A former name for the part of Railway Street that runs from Marlborough Street to Gardiner Street.
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Ulster Street
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…
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Vernon Avenue
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…
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Victoria Street
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…
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Walsh’s Row
A former name of Saint Mary’s Terrace, renamed in 1884.
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Walsh’s Row
The original name of St Mary’s Terrace.
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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.