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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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 newspaper report, applied to the houses to the north of Clarke Bridge, as far as to what is now Foster Terrace.1 The first entry in…
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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 James Carey, one of the Invincibles. (The name had no link with Carey himself.) James Carey (1845–1883) was a Dublin-born builder and leading Fenian who…
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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 says ‘Love Lane’, as does the first edition Ordnance Survey. The name derived from Joseph Love, under whose will Love’s Charity was established.
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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…
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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 first appeared in the street directories in 1834 as having two premises,3 but by 1850 there were seventeen tenements on the street.4 In 1874, the…