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 west off the North Strand, near Newcomen Bridge, this street, according to M’Cready, dates to 1805, but, unhelpfully, he says nothing about the origin of the name. However, it’s likely named for William, Duke of Clarence, for whom the nearby Clarence Street was named. The IHTA cites it as appearing unnamed in a map…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
