A little puzzle

Victor

What do the following have in common?

Fairview
Temple Bar
Phibsborough
Ranelagh
Summerhill
Stoneybatter
The Coombe


That these do not:
Finglas
Rathmines
Drumcondra
IFSC
Ballybough
Terenure

If it is really obvious to you, perhaps put you answer in spoiler tags [noparse]

Answer

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Gloomtastic!

I'm struggling to find the answer tbh.

Give us a clue?

tricky D

Animal, vegetable or mineral?

Aard

Does it have anything to do with

churches

¿

Victor

It's to do with the names and the areas. It isn't about features or people.

Aard wrote: »

Does it have anything to do with

churches

¿

No.

GalwayGirl26

Something to do with their Irish translation?

Victor

GalwayGirl26 wrote: »

Something to do with their Irish translation?

No.

enda1

Appear in Dubliners songs?

Thoie

It's not at all obvious to me, but I'm going to guess with

English etymology rather than Irish, except that doesn't explain the IFSC

?

Aard

I think I know.

Each of the first set is the name of a street, and the surrounding area is named after the street. I wasn't sure about Phibsboro though. The second set refer to the neighbourhoods. There's no such address as "22 Terenure", but there is a "22 Ranelagh" for example.

Lovely Bloke

Thoie wrote: »

It's not at all obvious to me, but I'm going to guess with

English etymology rather than Irish, except that doesn't explain the IFSC

?

Stoneybatter is an Irish AND English etymology

Stoney Bothair

the rocky road - to Dublin

Slunk

Aard wrote: »

I think I know.

Each of the first set is the name of a street, and the surrounding area is named after the street. I wasn't sure about Phibsboro though. The second set refer to the neighbourhoods. There's no such address as "22 Terenure", but there is a "22 Ranelagh" for example.

There's a finglas road and old finglas road though.

Aard

^I think you misunderstood what I meant.

Just to clarify, "Ranelagh" is the name of both a street and a neighbourhood. As in, the main road in Ranelagh is called "Ranelagh" with no "Street" or "Road" or anything else added. Same for the rest of the first group. Otoh, there is no street called "Finglas". As you highlight, there's "Finglas Road" however, like the rest of the items in the second set.

Ben D Bus

I'm with Aard on this.

January

Nope Phibsborough isn't just Phibsborough so can't be that.

Collie D

January wrote: »

Nope Phibsborough isn't just Phibsborough so can't be that.

Does sound plausible bar that though. This is going to annoy me. I am reporting the OP

Victor

Aard wrote: »

^I think you misunderstood what I meant.

Just to clarify, "Ranelagh" is the name of both a street and a neighbourhood. As in, the main road in Ranelagh is called "Ranelagh" with no "Street" or "Road" or anything else added. Same for the rest of the first group. Otoh, there is no street called "Finglas". As you highlight, there's "Finglas Road" however, like the rest of the items in the second set.

Correct. http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/53.35962/-6.27358

https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.3593669,-6.2728572,3a,15y,331h,95.63t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sM3VKn9yvjAJ0wqWmtqb3XA!2e0

January wrote: »

Nope Phibsborough isn't just Phibsborough so can't be that.

s please!

Aard

Awesome

I love finding out about little quirks like that. In a similar vein, there's a

street called "Old Kilmainham". Doesn't exactly fit the bill, but interesting nonetheless!

Ben D Bus

January wrote: »

Nope Phibsborough isn't just Phibsborough so can't be that.

I think from memory that it may actually qualify.

Edit: a quick check on Google confirms it does.

Victor

Victor wrote: »

What do the following have in common?

Fairview
Temple Bar
Phibsborough
Ranelagh
Summerhill
Stoneybatter
The Coombe

Another obvious one, of course, is Smithfield.

January

I should close this for being a an old thread

Still haven't the foggiest.

It's been 6 months, you bring this tormenting puzzle back into my mind again?! I think you could be banned for being a d*ck now!! I should report you. Tormenting users. Help us out a little? I spent six hours today studying the list, writing each place down and their area numbers. Is it a correlation with the names and their respective numbers?

Victor

Read post 10.

Victor

Oh, to punish you all, I found another - Dolphin's Barn (there is also a Dolphins Barn Street, Avenue and Road).

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.3335046,-6.29132,3a,15y,277.7h,93.65t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sxJWMHbRNwLJoDpbrDDcZvA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

vriesmays

Between the canals.