Nixon St - where is / was it ?

subpar

Doing some family research and discovered my great grand father was born / lived in Nixon St in the North Dock area in .

Cant find it on the map , does it still exist or was it demolished to make way for the IFSC.

Any help appreciated

Timberrrrrrrr

subpar wrote: »

Doing some family research and discovered my great grand father was born / lived in Nixon St in the North Dock area in .

Cant find it on the map , does it still exist or was it demolished to make way for the IFSC.

Any help appreciated

A mention here

http://www.turtlebunbury.com/published/published_books/docklands/north_wall/pub_books_docklands_history_northwall.html

The Sisters of Charity

The merchant William Meagher, Lord Mayor of Dublin and Home Rule MP for Meath had his townhouse on Lower Sheriff Street in 1884. However, as the 20th century approached, North Wall was slowly evolving into one of the more impoverished inner city landscapes in Dublin. The tenement houses on Guild Street, Sheriff Street and Nixon Street were becoming dangerously overcrowded. Seville Place remained relatively prosperous, populated by naval pensioners, businessmen, lawyers and, latterly, artists. When Lord Aberdeen and the Lord Mayor went on a tour of Dublin City in April 1886, they visited ‘the extensive improvements being carried out in Seville Place’. Mary Aikenhead’s Religious Sisters of Charity opened their pretty red-brick Convent of St Laurence O' Toole on Seville Place in November 1882. From here, the sisters visited the poor and sick, ran a primary school at East Wall, and served dinners from their large dining hall to poor men. In conjunction with the Catholic Social Service Committee, expectant mothers were also given nutritious dinners. The Sisters conducted a combined hostel for nuns and ‘business girls’, and a second one for girls out of employment. By Edwardian times, the Sisters were providing the celebrated ‘St. Anthony's penny dinners’ to the poor. In 2003, the Sisters combined force with the North Inner City Drugs Task Force (NICDTF) to establish the Deora Project to provide counselling for those suffering loss as a result of bereavement, suicide and/or addiction.

And here

http://canalsofdublin.com/interactive-walks/royal-canal-interactive-walk/spencer-dock/

he Early Years

In 1789, as France tumbled into revolution, the most enterprising Irish Parliament of the century authorised the construction of the Royal Canal. By 1803, the Royal Canal had carved its way through the misty slobs and early street grid of Dublin’s Docklands, connecting with the River Liffey (and the Irish Sea beyond) through lock-gates at North Wall Quay. Two berthing pools and a spur pool, known as the Royal Canal Docks, ran between the Quay and Sheriff Street, divided by present day Mayor Street. By the 1840s, these were capable of admitting ships of 150 tons. Sometime before 1850, the spur pool was filled in to become the site of Nixon Street and Newfoundland Street.

solomafioso

Also here, page 10.

http://www.dublindocklands.ie/files/business-planning/20111129023400_08_DD638_Final%20North%20Wall%20Quay.pdf

An impetus for the industrial development of the area is likely to have been launched by the
construction of the Royal Canal which began after 1789; it connected to the Liffey through a
system of locks. This work cannot, however, have been undertaken before 1806, when an
appeal was made by the Royal Canal Company (RCC) for more funding to bring the canal to
the river. Two berthing pools, the Royal Canal Docks, lay between the riverfront and Mayor
Street and between Mayor Street and Sheriff Street, while a spur extended to the west from
the northern pool (although depicted on Taylor’s map of 1816, this was filled-in by 1837, and
Nixon and Newfoundland Streets were constructed on the site before 1850).

Also, sorry I don't have the time, but see if it's on this old OSI map?

http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,715852,734939,4,7

spurious

Map from 1876. It was a continuation of Newfoundland Street. Long gone now.

Better map here: http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,716991,734709,7,9

loyatemu

its on the 25" map:



Edit: dang - beaten to it

tricky D

The green space east of the playground at 53°21'0.69"N 6°14'29.46"W

Demolished for Spencer Dock development.

Historic 25" between Mayor St Lower and Sherriff St Lower.

http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,717031,734700,7,9

subpar

Thanks to everyone . Mystery solved.

Victor

Newfoundland Street was known for its extreme poverty. You can see from the maps that the houses were quite small, with tiny yards, although some were so small they didn't even have them. They were the type of places with 6 people to a room. Nixon Street may not have been much better, but at least they has small gardens.

There were replaced with the Sheriff Street Flats in the 1930-1950 period, which in turn were demolished in the 1990s.