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 seems to have existed as early as 1934, when the Irish Times reported that the Corporation had approved plans for a shed at 5 Adrian…
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 Tallant Avenue‘, and records ‘2 to 36 & 1 to 23 Building’. The residents had moved in by 1950, when Thom’s recorded 36 householders in…
Running north-west from Neagh Road to Aideen Avenue, this street was originally a part of Neagh Road. In January 1934 the Corporation received a request from the residents that the name be changed to Aideen Drive.1 The Corporation agreed that a plebiscite be held, noting that the name would be ‘Céide Éadaoin’.2 In the plebiscite…
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 Road were built by the Corporation some ten years previously. In 1954 it was proposed that a plebiscite be held to ‘decide if that portion…
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 ran from Melvin Road to Derravaragh Road, but by 1949 a further stretch was added, as far as Aideen Avenue, and private houses built. By…
