Hillarious Street Names

Kintarō Hattori

Well I have to say there are some damn funny street/alley/laneways out there and I thought I'd share some I found funny.
Photographic evidence is always good and I'll share mine when I can find my phone. It's on silent, I can hear it vibrating but I can't find the flucker!!!

Balls Lane - I pass this on the way to work each day.
Curved Street - Tis in Temple Bar
Smug Street - My best mate used to have a job in some records place and he came across this winner. Can't remember where it was, but it does exist.

Does anyone else have any they thought were particuarly funny?

Volvoboy

Misery Hill

coke lane - on sombodys sig, cant think who.



-VB-

Crash

Coke lane is in apexaviours sig - still have to get him to show me where it is

Nightwish

You can see it from the Luas Red Line. Its at the bottom of Smithfield plaza.

Kintarō Hattori

Photo Evidence as promised!!

spurious

The old streetnames were great.
There was once a Cock Hill and a Cock lane near St. Michael's Hill.
Cuckold's Row in Newmarket.
Three Nun Alley in the Coombe.
Murdering lane and Cut-throat lane were in Mount Brown.
Cathedral lane off Kevin Street was known as Cabbage Garden.
An area close to Christ Church was called Hell.
Hammond lane was originally Hangman lane.
Bridgefoot Street was previously known as Dirty lane.
Part of Cornmarket was called Cutpurse row.

Wishbone Ash

Little Britain Street
Hole in the Wall Road
Protestant Row
Beaver Close
Lady's Lane
Ebenezer Terrace
Ryder's Row

&#231 wrote: »

Coke lane is in apexaviours sig - still have to get him to show me where it is

It's near the junction of Queen Street and Arran Quay.

cormie

Not a street, but I was driving up towards the coast road on Killiney Hill Rd and saw a place called Gayfield and then made a right turn and saw Little Gayfield! Started laughing like a 12 year old to myself.

There's also a South Park and Cypress Hill somewhere, think they are estates!

admiralofthefleet

love lane-just off mount street

springfield in tallaght

Tabnabs

Beaver Row
Bass Place
Pig Lane
Queen Street
Scarlett Row
Blackpitts

Wishbone Ash

cormie wrote:

There's also a South Park and Cypress Hill somewhere, think they are estates!

South Park is in Cornelscourt near the junction of the N11 and Clonkeen Road.

Healio

I seem to remember a place called misery hill, forget where it was but. Also Cuckoo lane down past parnell street.

arybvtcw0eolkf

Great thread, but does anyone know the history behind some of these fantastic names?.

Bluetonic

Lad Lane, Dublin 2 is good one.

Always find 1st Avenue off Seville Place quite strange.

spurious

Mairt wrote:

Great thread, but does anyone know the history behind some of these fantastic names?.

http://www.eiretek.org/chapters/books/DublinSt/dubindex.htm
Great site.

boneless

Healio wrote:

I seem to remember a place called misery hill, forget where it was but. Also Cuckoo lane down past parnell street.

It's a continuation of Hanover Street East at the Cardiff Lane end... I hope you know where they are!!:)

mikemac

Bluetonic wrote:

Always find 1st Avenue off Seville Place quite strange.

There's a second, third and fourth avenue off Seville Place also

JoeSchmoe

Wishbone Ash wrote:

Little Britain Street
QUOTE]


So named because Parnell St was originally called Great Britian St, you call imagine that was changed quick smart.

There was a guy in charge of naming a lot of the streets in the North Inner City, Henry Moore Earl of Drogheda, he used every part of his name, Drogheda st was what turned into O connell St and there even is an Of lane, cheeky Bast*rd!!

mad m

Ok I know its not Dublin but this was on way through Mojava Desert...

$lattman

Was driving from New York to Boston during the summer and came across a place called "Daniels Hole"!

Wishbone Ash

mad m wrote:

Ok I know its not Dublin but this was on way through Mojava Desert...

Zzyzx Rd - that's incredible. It must be pretty easy to find in an index! Pronunciation?

mad m

Wishbone Ash wrote:

Zzyzx Rd - that's incredible. It must be pretty easy to find in an index! Pronunciation?

Pronunciation now thats a hard one....Zikes!!!

KTRIC

"Hole in the Wall Road" - just past Donaghmede leaving the Grange Road. I grew up near there and the road literally got its name from an old wall with a big hole in it . As far as I remember it was opposite the Sports Center at the start of the road. I think the wall has since been demolished.

JoeSchmoe

not really an unusual name but more a case of misnaming in the extreme, there's a skanky grey dirty smells of piss laneway in Phibsboro, just beside the black church, which goes by the name of unfiitting address of "Paradise Place"

snickerpuss

I go past love lane on my way to college.
Pity its not as cute as it sounds.

monkeyfudge

Ballyfermot College is actually located on Sasame Street... I'd have learned more watching an episode of Sesame Street than going to that kip to be honest.

I'm pretty sure I've passed a Lois Lane in Rathmines at some stage...

Oh and there is a housing estate near where I live that was built in 1969, the year of the moon landings, and all the streets are named in celebration of that so you have Aldrin Walk, Tranquility Park, Eagle Way and Armstrong Avenue... No Micheal Collins Street though... poor Micheal Collins... always forgotten when it comes to the moon landing...

Oliverdog

I used to live near Buttocks Booth, Northampton UK. They've changed it to Boothville now, I believe.

irlirishkev

snickerpuss wrote:

I go past love lane on my way to college.
Pity its not as cute as it sounds.

Maybe it is on Saturday nights!

irlirishkev

JoeSchmoe wrote:

There was a guy in charge of naming a lot of the streets in the North Inner City, Henry Moore Earl of Drogheda, he used every part of his name, Drogheda st was what turned into O connell St and there even is an Of lane, cheeky Bast*rd!!

I've heard this before many times.

Henry Street
North Earl Street
Moore Street
Drogheda Street

...Where's 'Of Street'???

spurious

Of Lane is now called Henry Place and is one of the warren of lanes that run in the block surrounded by Henry Street, Moore Street and Parnell Street.

It's the one that The Mint is in.

Goldfingers

Ratt Row was knocked down to build Tara Street Dart Station.I think the original sign is still on the wall in Ned Scanlans pub.Theres also Lad lane,Cock Hill Road,Beggars Bush,Lady Lane and of course Butt Bridge.

olly_mac

Fumbally Lane, near St Patricks is a corruption of Bum Baliffe Lane...

Toby Take a Bow

Blood Stoney Road, just around the corner from Misery Hill. You gotta love the docklands. I think there's a place called Cromwell's Quarters or something around Kilmainham. I'm not sure if it's a new or old name (either way it's pretty odd).

HeidiHeidi

Middle Third out in Raheny (there might be other Thirds as well, but I'm not sure). Would love to know the reason behind that name!

Misery Hill would have been where the Grand Canal Theatre is now, or thereabouts - it backed onto the old gasometer site.

HeidiHeidi

Toby Take a Bow wrote: »

Blood Stoney Road, just around the corner from Misery Hill. You gotta love the docklands. I think there's a place called Cromwell's Quarters or something around Kilmainham. I'm not sure if it's a new or old name (either way it's pretty odd).

Cromwell's Quarter is a set of steps leading from Mount Brown down to Kilmainhman Lane/Bow Street.

Blood Stoney was a person - can't remember where I saw that, but see it I did, only recently.

Toby Take a Bow

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Cromwell's Quarter is a set of steps leading from Mount Brown down to Kilmainhman Lane/Bow Street.

Blood Stoney was a person - can't remember where I saw that, but see it I did, only recently.

What a name! Do you know anything about the story behind Cromwell's Quarter? It seems an odd name for anything at all in Ireland, but maybe it wasn't named after that Cromwell?

HeidiHeidi

Toby Take a Bow wrote: »

What a name! Do you know anything about the story behind Cromwell's Quarter? It seems an odd name for anything at all in Ireland, but maybe it wasn't named after that Cromwell?

Hah! A quick google hasn't answered the question of where Cromwell's Quarter came from - but apparently it used to be called Murdering Lane - even better!

http://comeheretome.wordpress.com/2011/03/22/a-follow-up-on-cromwells-quarters/

In the comments below there's one explanation of how it and Cutthroat Lane got renamed.

http://comeheretome.wordpress.com/2011/03/09/the-murdring-lane-how-apt/

Hermy

At the back of the airport there's Passifyoucan.

Hesh's Umpire

Thundercut Alley was off Smithfield until relatively recently. Was a very narrow passage.

[Jackass]

There's a "prince of wales terrace" in Sandymount which is kind of odd that the name lasted.

"Ballsbridge - Erected in 17xx" sign always makes me smile. :pac:

Also cames across this....(old name.....current name)


Elbow lane .................... now ... Bow Lane
Cuckold's Row ................. " ... Brabazon Street.
Dirty Lane ..................... " ... Bridgefoot Street.
Cutthrroat Lane ............. " ... Brookfield Road.
Hangmans Lane ............ " ... Hammond Lane.
Watery Lane ................ " ... Lansdown Road.
Gallows Road ................. " ... Lower Baggot St.
The Old Rope Walk ........ " ... Lwr. Gardner St.
Gibbet Meadow .............. " ... Mespil Road.
Murdering Lane .............. " ... Old Kilmaimham
Artichoke Road ................ " ... Shelbourne Road.
Macgillamocholmog's St. ... " ... St. Michaels Lane.
Monks Walk....................... " ... St.Stephens green east
Dog & Duck yard .............. " ... Usher's Lane

Wishbone Ash

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Blood Stoney was a person - can't remember where I saw that, but see it I did, only recently.

Bindon Blood Stoney was an engineer with Dublin Port in the 1700s. He was responsible for much work in the area including building the quay walls.

BeerNut

Hesh's Umpire wrote: »

Thundercut Alley was off Smithfield until relatively recently.

It was rebuilt and is still there, as a modern pedestrian street running just south of Fresh.

Thunder was one of the old Dublin brewing families and they had a brewery around there, which was later absorbed into Jameson's brewery (who did beer as well as whiskey). I've often wondered if Thundercut Alley is connected to Thunder's brewery.

ollaetta

Hesh's Umpire wrote: »

Thundercut Alley was off Smithfield until relatively recently. Was a very narrow passage.

Old pic:

Toby Take a Bow

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Hah! A quick google hasn't answered the question of where Cromwell's Quarter came from - but apparently it used to be called Murdering Lane - even better!

http://comeheretome.wordpress.com/2011/03/22/a-follow-up-on-cromwells-quarters/

In the comments below there's one explanation of how it and Cutthroat Lane got renamed.

http://comeheretome.wordpress.com/2011/03/09/the-murdring-lane-how-apt/

Looks like a great blog. Thanks for that (although I suppose I could've just googled myself).

hXci

ollaetta wrote: »

Old pic:

My personal favourite Dublin street name! Well, actually its joint first with Morning Star Avenue!

Dyr

There's a lazer lane down in docklands, presumably its a new addition

Dyr

the tonlegee road is pretty funny too, in either language.

LLU

Can't think of any good Irish ones but believe it or not there used to be at least one street named 'Gropecunt street' in London. Long since renamed, not too surprisingly.

KTRIC

Bambi wrote: »

the tonlegee road is pretty funny too, in either language.

I grew up just off it and I have no idea what it means. Can you shed some light on it ?

Dyr

KTRIC wrote: »

I grew up just off it and I have no idea what it means. Can you shed some light on it ?

Arse to the wind allegedly, tóin le gaoith

BeerNut

LLU wrote: »

believe it or not there used to be at least one street named 'Gropecunt street' in London. Long since renamed, not too surprisingly.

Lots of English cities had them. "Grope Lane" or "Grape Lane" are what they tend to have been bowdlerised to.

Wiki article here. London had several, apparently.