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, the Trust proposed names for the streets to the Corporation The Corporation’s Paving Committee was then told that Lord Iveagh had subsequently written to the…
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Chapter Lane
See the entry for Chapter Place.
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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 or Chapter House of the adjoining St Patrick’s Cathedral. Although Chapter ‘Street’ was the official name – it’s listed as that in Thom’s from 1870…
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Chapter Street
See the entry for Chapter Place.
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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, and it’s shown on Rocque’s map the same year. In 1895 the Corporation’s Paving Committee received, and agreed with, ‘a numerously signed memorial from resident…
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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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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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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 Street. The name was approved by the Corporation in July 1900.
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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 developed by the Corporation’s Artisans’ Dwellings Committee, the first plans being approved in 1891. The plans were subsequently revised: Paul Street is labeled ‘New Avenue’…
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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 taken in charge by the Corporation on 12 December 1904. The name presumably derives from the location of the street close to ‘Little Jerusalem’, the…
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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 asked by Mr Frederick Stokes to take in charge ‘the new streets called Kingsland park and Florence Street, near Portobello’. In October 1871 the Kingsland…