Dublin Laneways

Waestrel

Hello all, I am looking for a reference for the history and name origin for a small laneway in Dublin 1, the laneway between the academy plaza and bord planeala. Its called Strong's Court, and i am trying to find the origin of this unusual name.

Any help appreciated

Peregrine

Looks like it may have been called Strang's Court once.
https://www.logainm.ie/Eolas/Data/IHTA/dublin-3.pdf

spurious

Oddly, it doesn't appear in C.T. Cready's 'Dublin Street names - dated and explained' of 1892.

You have piqued my interest now. I shall have a rummage in my books.

ollaetta

Yes, it was Strang's Court on the attached map which is from the 1870s.

Edgware

Dublin street names can be funny that way. For example Ship St has nothing to do with ships. It was originally called Sheep st because sheep were allowed to graze there.

spurious

Most of the 'courts' were named after businesses. It could have been a business on Great Britain Street (Parnell Street) that the court was at the back of, or one which was on Gregg's lane beside the entrance to the court.

The best way to be sure would be to check Thom's for relevant years. They have a full set upstairs in Pearse St. library but unfortunately we are all stuck at home and the online ones are difficult to browse by street.

Victor

No explanation listed here: http://www.leabhair.ie/sob/sraidbac/liosta.html

Waestrel

spurious wrote: »

Most of the 'courts' were named after businesses. It could have been a business on Great Britain Street (Parnell Street) that the court was at the back of, or one which was on Gregg's lane beside the entrance to the court.

The best way to be sure would be to check Thom's for relevant years. They have a full set upstairs in Pearse St. library but unfortunately we are all stuck at home and the online ones are difficult to browse by street.

What would the Thom's reveal? Im not familiar with them

Victor

Waestrel wrote: »

What would the Thom's reveal? Im not familiar with them

Every single address. They are a bit like an older version of a phone book, but sorted by street address. It will likely contain some additional information.

L1011

There is a knack to finding individual streets on the online ones; find the start and end extent of the street directory file names (in a Dublin directory that'll be like page 0005 to 1100; in a national directory it might 2000 to 3000 or whatever) for a given year and binary search within them. Its neither fun nor easy but it is doable.

Waestrel

Victor wrote: »

Every single address. They are a bit like an older version of a phone book, but sorted by street address. It will likely contain some additional information.

ans where are they to be found? any library?

spurious

Most libraries in Dublin will have one or two, though usually recent ones. The Dublin collection upstairs in Pearse St. library has them (and other directories) back to about 1800 or so and sporadically back before that.

ollaetta

Thom's Irlsh Almanac and Street Directory 1852 is viewable on Google Books. Strong's Court is listed on page 875 as Two houses in tenements.