Determining old street numbering

oceanclub

A great-aunt of mine was born in 1895 at 1, Upper Gloucester Street, what is now Sean McDermott Street. Number 1 or indeed many numbers no longer exist. I had a look at an old OSI map but it doesn't show street numbering. Is there any way to determine where no. 1 would have been at that time?

pinkypinky

Identify a building that is still there now?

Thoms Directory will help with this. There's a good collection in Pearse St library.

You can compare to the census of 1901/1911 but enumerators did assign numbers which can add to confusion.

shanew

oceanclub wrote: »

A great-aunt of mine was born in 1895 at 1, Upper Gloucester Street, what is now Sean McDermott Street. Number 1 or indeed many numbers no longer exist...Is there any way to determine where no. 1 would have been at that time?

yes - from Thom's 1895 Street listings. So no 1 was at the Marlborough St end. I may be able to work out which side using junctions of side-streets.

oceanclub

Thanks; just to note that modern numbering wouldn't have helped as the street totally changed - that is, part of Upper Gloucester is what is now Cathal Brugha St, but only part - the western half of Cathal Brugha St is a totally new street built after 1916: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathal_Brugha_Street

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shanew

nothing distinctive with the street junctions, but the north city dispensary is shown at 48, which based on the c1890/1900 OSI map seems to be on the north side of the street, so no 1 southside.

edit : the side of the street with numbers 1 to 21, mentions junction with North Cumberland Street Lower, the other side upper, which I presume means south and north respectively

oceanclub

I'm guessing this would have been no. 1?:

http://i.imgur.com/UUqH4eJ.jpg

(Although according to this, 37 was very nearby, which doesn't make sense:

http://www.jjon.org/jioyce-s-people/madams

(see first image)

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shanew

oceanclub wrote: »

I'm guessing this would have been no. 1?:

http://i.imgur.com/UUqH4eJ.jpg

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other side - the dispensary was no. 48

Alun

There are some old street level city maps with house numbers on them available here ..

http://digital.ucd.ie/maps/explorer/

The interface is a bit frustrating and takes a bit of getting used to, but if you can find a rough location based on the modern OpenStreetmap map, you can then select a layer based on a year range, and view the map of that area.

Here's a screen grab of the end of Gloucester Street Upper where number one appears to have been located ...

shanew

didn't realize those were available online - these look like the Dublin city maps that came with the Eneclann/Archive CD of the 1851 census

oceanclub

Thanks for all the help, everyone.

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