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 from Mr John Hanlon, North Circular Road, asking that the name be changed to Annamoe Road; he had just built some houses adjoining his own…
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 other streets in the same development, Glenard Avenue and Doon Avenue, are also linked to Donegal. I’ve no evidence, yet, as to why the names…
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 Committee was advised that the ‘new road… [had] been put into such a state of repair as will enable the Corporation to take it in…
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 and as Faussagh Lane on the various editions of the Ordnance Survey.2 It’s first listed in Thom’s, as Faussaght Lane, in 1850, with 50 small…
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, but I think this name derives from Donegal,1 as the names of two other streets in this development are also linked to that county. See…
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 M’Cready, the name comes from John Eccles, Lord Mayor in 1710, who owned property here. Although it appears as ‘Stable Lane’ on Campbell’s Map of…
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 entry for Everton Avenue for details.
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. One other of the streets, Ellesmere Avenue, has a related name, ‘Everton’ being a district of Liverpool, and ‘Ellesmere’ a port on the Manchester Ship…
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 the area being associated with the Vikings, ‘Fingal’, or ‘Fine Gall’, meaning ‘fair strangers’. (See, for example, Olaf Road.) The street was taken in charge…
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 that county. See the entries for Ardmore Avenue and Doon Avenue.
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 for the choice of name; none of the names given to the streets have any connection with each other.
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 Artisans’ Dwelling Company who, in 1907, submitted proposed names for the streets to the Corporation’s Paving Committee. The name proposed for this street was ‘Plantation…
Linenhall Parade was built in the mid-1920s on the site of the Linen Hall Barracks, itself built alongside the eighteenth-century Linen Hall, once the centre of Dublin’s linen trade. The barracks was burned out in 1916, and the site lay derelict for almost a decade afterwards.¹ In September 1925 the Corporation agreed to take a…
Connecting Linenhall Parade to Coleraine Street, through the site of the old Linen Hall Barracks. Named at the same time and for the same reason as Linenhall Parade — see that entry for the full history.¹
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 of the name ‘Pinchgut’ (it’s not in M’Cready), but it’s a narrow laneway and maybe it’s a jocular reference to that? When the Paving Committee…
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, so the purchase must have taken place earlier that year. The name of this road, along with that of Olaf Road and Norseman Place, was…
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 houses at the Phibsborough end being occupied by 1881. In June that year, a ‘comfortable front room‘ set as a sitting room and bedroom was…
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 the University of Dublin (Trinity) from 1765-71. The street is shown unnamed on Rocque, but is listed in Harris’s work of 1766. It is shown…
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 Company, and derives from the Norse/Viking history of the locality. The name of this road, along with that of Mount Temple Road and Olaf Road,…
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 Company and derives from the Norse/Viking history of the locality. The name of this road, along with that of Mount Temple Road and Norseman Place,…
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 Rocque.2 M’Cready suggests, plausibly, that the name was from Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke, who was Lord Lieutenant (1707-8).3
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 areas are shown on the northern end of the lane. It was still called Quarry Lane in 1902, when part of the lane was renamed…
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 motion was proposed at the meeting, an amendment was put ‘to refer the proposal to the Paving and Lighting Committee to ascertain whether the proposed…
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 street directory for 1833. The houses on the street were certainly occupied by 1837. In 1884 the Paving and Lighting Committee of the Corporation was…
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…
The original name of St Mary’s Terrace.
