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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
