Post weird road names here

justmehere

Blood Stoney road
History of Blood Stoney road

AnonoBoy

Coke Lane.

whiskeyman

Lad Lane

Drummerboy2

Mannix Hill

Killgore Trout

Furry Park Road

Mr. Presentable

Cock St (Cork)

Via Vagine (Bergamo)

John Mason

i always thought marrowbone lane was a strange one.

as a kid, i would picture people sitting around sucking on bones


http://multitext.ucc.ie/d/Forbes_Cottages_off_Marrowbone_Lane_Grand_Canal_Harbour_1913

BaconZombie

Little Britain St

Google Map Link:

chin_grin

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=dublin+ireland&ie=UTF8&ll=53.34088,-6.263645&spn=0.004388,0.009592&t=h&z=17

Lower Stephen St, (I think) there's a sign for "All Day Breakfast St". (I know it's a p-take)

Slaanesh

http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=-33.872402~151.196465&style=r&lvl=17&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=28201363&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1

Near where I used to work in Sydney, Experiment St.

I wonder did it even reach beta?

Then again this is the Dublin forum so maybe I should crawl back under my rock?

Dancor

Balls lane. (Childish giggle)

Dancor

chin_grin wrote: »

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=dublin+ireland&ie=UTF8&ll=53.34088,-6.263645&spn=0.004388,0.009592&t=h&z=17

Lower Stephen St, (I think) there's a sign for "All Day Breakfast St". (I know it's a p-take)

A recent one in the Dublin pic game.

jum4

not dublin; but i used live near this road in London;

http://www.flickr.com/photos/shimmertje/308718875/

humberklog

Rowserstown lane, Kilmainham.

The turn off from NCR to Grange gorman is mis-spelt Grange Gormoan.

Chardee MacDennis

Lazer lane!

Wishbone Ash

dancor wrote: »

A recent one in the Dublin pic game.

That's Little Longford Street dancor.

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irishbird wrote: »

i always thought marrowbone lane was a strange one.

My Dad has an office there.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Anal Street in Manchester (someone ettched off the 'C').

boneless

I grew up around the area so never found it funny but people always laugh when I say there is a place called Fumbally Lane.

Maybe Gav can help me out here... I once heard that the name is a corruption of Fumble Alley. Any one else hear this?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

boneless wrote: »

I grew up around the area so never found it funny but people always laugh when I say there is a place called Fumbally Lane.

Maybe Gav can help me out here... I once heard that the name is a corruption of Fumble Alley. Any one else hear this?

Sounds like soemthing out of Discworld

eamon234

Hackballs Cross is one of my faves

Rusty Cogs 08

Atmospheric Road (Dalkey)

fasterkitten

That's named for the atmospheric (uses atmospheric pressure for propulsion) railway which used to run parallel to it, where the DART line runs now.

stovelid

Spa road in Inchicore.

Rashers

Misery Hill

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Washerwoman's Hill

Gavin "shels"

Des wrote: »

My Dad has an office there.

Doesn't happen to be a new modern one on the corner?

boneless wrote: »

I grew up around the area so never found it funny but people always laugh when I say there is a place called Fumbally Lane.

Maybe Gav can help me out here... I once heard that the name is a corruption of Fumble Alley. Any one else hear this?

Haven't a breeze. You grew up on Fumbally Lane, always wondered why you knew Dublin 8 so well, there's only like 4 houses on Fumbally Lane.:eek:

stovelid wrote: »

Spa road in Inchicore.

In tribute of SPA (St. Patricks Athletic) *.





*This may or may not be true

Gavin "shels"

Stirrup Lane (Next to King St North) and Morning Star Ave (off Brunswick St North) are 2 of my favourites.

boneless

I didn't actually grow up in the lane but very close by ! I love the area!!

stovelid

Gavin shels wrote: »

In tribute of SPA (St. Patricks Athletic) *.

*This may or may not be true

That had never occurred to me in all this time...

tricky D

Cowbooter Lane in Howth.

also:
"So when a Howth man tells you that he travelled from Somalie to Korea by way of Vietnam and Krugers Cutting all in one day, the accomplishment is not as tremendous as you might at first think!"
http://www.chaptersofdublin.com/books/jimkilroy/neverforgotten.htm

From:
http://www.chaptersofdublin.com/blist.htm

Dancor

Ring Street

Gaspode

boneless wrote: »

I grew up around the area so never found it funny but people always laugh when I say there is a place called Fumbally Lane.

Maybe Gav can help me out here... I once heard that the name is a corruption of Fumble Alley. Any one else hear this?

I read once that Fumbally was a corruption of 'Bum Bailiff'.

Definition of Bum Bailiff from here
"A Bum Bailiff was a Sheriff’s officer, who arrests debtors; so called perhaps from following his prey, and being at their bums, or, as the vulgar phrase is, hard at their a-ses. Blackstone says, it is a corruption of bound bailiff, from their being obliged to give bond for their good behaviour."

As far as I can recall, there was a bailiff's office on Fumbally Lane at one stage, so perhaps it has some credence. I read all this as part of a school project many moons ago, so I dont have the original source.

vektarman

Engine Alley and Red cow lane.

boneless

deswalsh wrote: »

I read once that Fumbally was a corruption of 'Bum Bailiff'.

Definition of Bum Bailiff from here
"A Bum Bailiff was a Sheriff’s officer, who arrests debtors; so called perhaps from following his prey, and being at their bums, or, as the vulgar phrase is, hard at their a-ses. Blackstone says, it is a corruption of bound bailiff, from their being obliged to give bond for their good behaviour."

As far as I can recall, there was a bailiff's office on Fumbally Lane at one stage, so perhaps it has some credence. I read all this as part of a school project many moons ago, so I dont have the original source.

Thanks for this info Mate! It does make some sense and is probably researchable. reminds me of how "Hangmans Lane" became Hammond Lane. The fact that a public gallows was there was forgotten but the name remained in a corrupted sense.

mikemac

Rusty Cogs 08 wrote: »

Atmospheric Road (Dalkey)

Probably named after the railway

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalkey_Atmospheric_Railway

Rashers

vektarman wrote: »

Engine Alley

Next time you're passing look at how it's spelled in Irish.

gurramok

Lover's Lane off Mount st!

spurious

boneless wrote: »

I grew up around the area so never found it funny but people always laugh when I say there is a place called Fumbally Lane.

Maybe Gav can help me out here... I once heard that the name is a corruption of Fumble Alley. Any one else hear this?

McCready's 'Dublin street names dated and explained' (1892) says
Fumbally's (Fumbailie's) - lane (off New Street) 1789
A corruption of Bumbailiff's lane 1756

Ho ho, even better - top of the class Des.

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There are some cool old names of Dublin streets.
Phrapper lane
Dunghill lane
Gocoue's lane
Rapparee alley
Cabbage garden lane
World's end lane

lightening

Not a street or a road name, but an area, one we are all used to, so we don't bat an eyelid....

Ballsbridge!

I always liked the few streets in Coolock that were built around the first lunar landing, street names are (from what I can remember):

Apollo Way
Eagle Park
Tranquility Grove
Armstrong Walk.

boneless

I had just started to do the research Spurious but you saved me a pile of reading

Thanks!!

gurramok

There are a few odd names in Ringsend for example

Hope st
Doris st
Joy st

All beside each other, so Doris had hope and joy in the area :P

Bartronilic

Findlater Street

humberklog

gurramok wrote: »

Lover's Lane off Mount st!

I'm pretty sure the it's just Love Lane.
I used to live down there in The Northumberlands. The name Love Lane lends itself to a more seedier side than Lover's Lane.

Victor

lightening wrote: »

Apollo Way
Eagle Park
Tranquility Grove
Armstrong Walk.

All together with one more - Woodville Court.

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Victor wrote: »

All together with one more - Woodville Court.

Yeah, it's really weird.

And some absolute tosspot residents association decided to re-name two other estates around the area "Woodville" too, with massive boulders up all over the place.

I don't live in Woodville, but the stone says I do.

Gaspode

lightening wrote: »

Not a street or a road name, but an area, one we are all used to, so we don't bat an eyelid....

Ballsbridge!

I always liked the few streets in Coolock that were built around the first lunar landing, street names are (from what I can remember):

Apollo Way
Eagle Park
Tranquility Grove
Armstrong Walk.

Doesnt Aldrin get a road named after him too in the same estate: Aldrin Walk. Also, AFAIK the Michael Collins who stayed on board the Apollo gets a road after him too, but I cant remember the name of it. Probably Collins Short Straw Avenue or something!

TheScribbler

I know of a police station in England that was built on a roundabout and the 5 yards of cul-de-sac leading to the station was (and is) known as 'Lettsbey Avenue'

sambongo

Paradise Place linking Saint Mary's Place and Lower Wellington Street in Dublin 1 is a fantastic one. It's ironic in that it's a pretty grotty little laneway...

Crow92

Xavier avenue -Northstrand road Dublin

Bit sci-fi

Or

Crow's lane-Temple bar

F.R.

Cats Ladder in Dalkey off Vico Road