A cul-de-sac running north from Home Farm Road, this street is one of several in the area named after islands. CHECK THE MINUTES FOR THE DECISION The street is shown in outline, but unnamed, on the Ordnance Survey 6″ revised in 1907-8. It first appears in Thom’s for 1909, with six houses listed. That same…
Located off Botanic Avenue, Glasnevin, Addison Place was described in 1904 as ‘a bye-lane or passage, having no formation or drainage’. The name ‘Addison’ comes from the writer and politician Joseph Addison, whose connection to the area derives from his friendship with Thomas Tickell, his literary executor. Tickell lived in Glasnevin, his home being where…
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…
