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…
A previous 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
A previous name for 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.
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…
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 Joseph McGonagle, who also built houses on Mount Prospect Avenue2 and Griffith Avenue.3 In 1940 McGonagle was sued by one of the purchasers of the…
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 Works, at Ballybough. I can find no direct evidence for the origin of the name, but I’m assuming it comes from George Henry Cadogan (1840–1915),…
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…
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 a member of his family; Robert Street is named after his son, William Robert Hall.
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 daughter, Mabel; she died in Belfast in 1885. Hall died sometime before 1900 (he’s referred to as the ‘Late Mr William Hall’ in the Irish…
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 name was Elizabeth. The part of the street nearest Robert Street was laid out sometime in the 1880s; people were living on the street by…
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 1904. There’s no evidence for the derivation of the name; ‘Caledon’ is a townland in County Tyrone, so perhaps there’s a link there? There’s a…
One of the grandest roads on the north side, Griffith Avenue was laid out in the 1920s as part of the Marino Housing scheme, linking the Malahide Road (and the Howth Road if you include Copeland Avenue) to Ballymun Road. Originally referred to as the ‘100 foot road’, it was named Griffith Avenue in April…
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 £28 per annum but the street is called Fitzroy ‘Terrace’. By the time the street was taken in charge by the Corporation in 1903, at…
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…
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 was originally named Addison ‘street’, but on 10 November 1902, the Corporation’s Paving Committee reported: Your Committee beg to report that they have received a…
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 on sale in May 1987. Built by Bovale, the houses ranged in price from IR£44,950 to IR£60,250. I can find no connection between the name…
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, and implemented in 1950. The land and buildings were owned by the Vernon Estate, with most leased to a Dermot McMorrough. McMorrough himself occupied a…
