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…
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 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…
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…
