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What about Quinn’s Lane that links Fitzwilliam Square with Leeson Street. There are still residents living there and a derelict building beside Good Mood Cafe that looks like an old school. I would love to hear the history of this place:-)
it was actually the old st vincent hospital not a school!
This lane is named after my great grandfather who was a Quinn & a mighty one at that. One of 20 brave men who turned up to this post near the hospital to fight the English in the Easter Uprising of 1916 they were expecting 200 but not the case & the English slaughtered them.
Hence I believe some streets were named after those that lost their lives so brutally.
My favourite lane in Dublin is the “Long Lane” at the side of the old Meath hospital leading onto the junction of Clanbrassil St and New St from Heytesbury St. It has perhaps the smallest house in Dublin at 19a Long Lane with the distinction of the house being built on the plot of land that was…yes; you have guessed it, a laneway! The laneway was originally known as Heytesbury Place. Perhaps someone spotted a literal gap in the market and built a house on it!
My name is Mairead O’Neill,
I am searching for a friend who lived at 19 Long Lane, Heytesbury Place. Her name was Margaret Davis (nee O’Connor). Last known at this address around 1970. I would love to find her. She came from Clonskeigh. And, she worked with me at the Dublin Holproof Hosery Company in Harcourt Street.
Hi , You may be interested to know that the lady who lived at this address-19 and a half Heytesbury Place , in 1877 !!! assisted my paternal great grandmother in delivering her son my grandad -they lived at no 20 .Her name was Julia Bolger .I have no other information .Came across this in trying to research my family history prior to this .
thought you might be interested .Judy
Thank you Judi, I am doing this for my sister, and it was really nice to see your reply. We have not found Margaret Davis (nee O’Connor yet, sadly, but I am still looking for her. Ann
anyone got a pic of abbey cottages corner of liffey st and abbey st?
have one real good old shot of all the cottages before demolition.
Click to access mews.pdf
Hi All
Has anyone got a photo or information on Harmony Row Tenements off Pearse St {Brunswick St}
Thanks,
Kaye.
I am looking for old photos of Long lane in Dublin . My family lived there in no 34 from 1850? through to 1935 approx . I would be very grateful for any help
I’m very familiar with Long Lane, grew up in the 70’s just off it .. If I find anything I’ll send it your way
Hi Declan,
My Dad lived in Long Lane around the same time, if you do have any pictures of it I would be really grateful if you could contact me?
Many thanks,
Jen
Hi Eamon Just came across this post .If you are still interested I have a couple of photos of Long Lane taken in the 1970s.If you could possibly post an email address I can send them on to you.I had family living in 46 Long Lane from about 1905 till about 1980.
Hi hope anyone can help. My mothers family lived in Long Lane from the 1920’s through till 1970’s. I spent many a happy time visiting my Granny (Mrs Fitzgerald) and on one visit my Brother arrived earlier then planned and my mother gave Birth to him in 1956 in the Coombe. (he was always referred to as a Liberty-baby)?. My mother married my father and moved to Birmingham in 1954.I always remember my Grannys next door neighbours The Macgregors…think it was spelt like that.. and also opposite was a family by the surname of Maxwell. O’h I loved the Long-Lane and still miss it now in 2017. Regards Bernadette
Hi Gerry. I wrote a book on a George Geoghegan (killed in 1916, Citizens Army) a couple of years ago. George started his married life in Long Lane off Dorset Street but I never found a photo of the lane. Would love to see photos of it, even from the 70s. gouldingpeter@gmail.com. Incidentally, the 1901 Census shows only 3 families living in the lane in one tenement, yet your family was no. 46??
Where is Swan court ?(south inner city)
There’s a Swan Lane beside Bruxelles pub, Harry St. It runs down to the Westbury car park and the back of Bewleys
hi I am looking for a photo of 43 city quay back in the 50>60s
Anyone ever hear of a “Rice’s Lane” somewhere around Benburb Street or Maymarket Area … Just doing a bit of family history searching … any help appreciated
Sorry never heard of Rice’s Lane but i would be grateful if anybody could help me with images of 1900’s Long Lane , smock Alley , Fleet Street or York street.
I found a reference to a “Long Alley” in Dublin. Does anyone know if they meant Long Lane? Thanks.
Hi Hilary,
In the 1956 Thom’s Directory I could find no reference to Long Alley.But Long Lane is from New St to Bride St,at Wood Quay.Long Lane West is from Dorset St Upper to Inns Quay West.
Regards,
Kaye
Thanks so much for this Kaye. Much appreciated.
Best wishes,
Hilary
I’m coming to this at a late stage but would love to get some information about Frederick Lane North where my father, his father and his father lived
Hi Poppy,
Frederick Lane NT, is between Dorset St and Gardiner s Row.It is very tiny with approx ten buildings consisting of eight cottages and five Business in the 1950 Thom’s Directory.
Regards,
Kate.
My uncle Francis Sutton was born at 5 Long Lane
Hi Stephen
Is there any possibility that your family has an old photo of Long Lane – around the 1900 to 1930 period?
Regards
Eamon
Re
Long lane, off Dorset St to Inns Quay,Six tenements,no names.
Long Lane,South,Meath Hospital.New St to Bride St.
Sean
Can anyone tell me about Glovers Alley off St Stephens Green, my Grandparents lived there and my Grandfather was a Jarvey!!
Did you ever get anywhere with your queries on Glover’s Alley?
Denis. My grand mothers name was Gilmore they lived on upper Rutland st and Kelly’s row ! Two of the daughters married and lived in Armagh anyone know this family ? Their fathers name was Martin mother Sarah any information please !!
Hi Denis, I’m also related to the Gilmores of Kellys Row. Message me back if you get this.
What about Coles lane. It was near henry st.herbie
hi herbert, my mothers family lived in Cole’s Lane, i only found a few old images of the place on the net – would love to hear more.
Hi Ruth. My dad was reared by his Aunt Annie who was married to Daniel Laffan. He told me a story of going with his uncle to “the uncle’s brother” after the 1916 Rising and said he lived near Parnell St. He described O’Connell St. on the journey there. I discovered a James Laffan in the 1911 census who was living at 1.1 Cole’s Lane and found James and Daniel in 1901 living with their parents at 40.5 Upper Sackville St. I am puzzled, as you state it was your mother’s family that lived there. Are you descended from James?
I’m desended from laphens from Coles lane – back to Mary Margaret Laphen ( daughter of John Laphen and Amelia Broe) born Coles lane 1854 ( married Joseph Jordan 1871). Lots of related laphens / laffens around Moore Street and surrounds.
Coles Lane was one of a network of lanes which ran through what is now the ILAC centre. About half of the lane remains in widened form from Henry Street to the hub of the ILAC centre, at the side of Dunnes Stores ( formerly Roches Stores/ Debenhams.
Coles Lane was associated with the secondhand clothing trade. When clothing was worn by several owners, it ended up as rags which could be recycled by a rag and bone man.
Some of my ancestors lived in the 1850s, above a rag and bone yard in Coles Lane.
Hi – my family lived in no 34 long lane from the mid 1800’s to 1930ish – I would really love to get copies of your photos – my email is eamongblake@gmail.com – thanks for the help
Oh me too please, I grew up just one road away from it, love to see them. dec_dublin@hotmail.com. Cheers
Hi would anyone have any information about Cole Alley which is now Meath Place. My family all lived here and I would love to obtain some photos of the area.
Hi Cairrean,I am also interested in Cole Alley and old pictures. My Grandpa’s Grandfather,William Donne, lived at 24 Cole Alley.He was a silk weaver m.Jane Bordbridge 1817,d.1844. I am trying to find baptism records for daughter Frances Jane b.about 1830. Wondering if there any Bordbridge or Donne surnames still in Dublin area (COI).
Marj:
I was doing reseach on Maken – Leonard at 23 Coles Alley according to 1818 according to the Treble Almanac. They said they were brewers but thats all the information but thats all I know
I have only been to Coles Lane a couple of times but my mother was a regular visitor. Every Saturday she would bring home clothes from Coles Lane and we would try them on and if we liked them and they fit then she would pay on Monday. We would give her the money. Many a good bargain was had. She had such an arrangement with one of the Dealers there. I seem to recall her name was Mrs Richardson. This was back in the 60’s when I was an Apprentice Fitter and Turner in Ringsend. Does any of your readers remember the Money Lenders? I was very young but I can remember my mother borrowing from Rosie Long a well known money lender on Meath Street. I don’t know what the interest rate was but I think it would have been about 20%. As kids we thought Rosie was fantastic as she would give my mother money and we would then be bought a toy and an ice cream on Thomas Street.
Are there still Money Lenders in Dublin? I haven’t lived in Ireland since 1975 so I am out of touch with life in Dublin these days.
Stephens Lane & Stephens Place (backstreets between Mount Street Lower/Upper, Merrion Square and the Grand Canal) seem to suffer from a dearth of knowledge … I had ancestors in the tenements there for years …
Hi David, I’m looking into my parental Grand father and Mother and found that they lived in the tenements on Stephens Lane. My widowed GM lived in one room with 6 children. I have heard that the buildings in the area collapsed and the surviving people moved out south to Drimnagh I’m going to be looking further into it and will let you know how I get on the press my have pictures archived. Who were your ancestors they probably knew mine.
it would be nice to stay in touch and swap info Stephen … are you on facebook ?
I remember a woman moneylender who could be found
Outside the gates of the gas company at Pearse and M
Macken st. on Friday pay days. I believe she lived in Stella
Gardens area.
Possibly named Maloney.
My granny, Janey Boyne, was a money lender and lived in Pearse Square,
She married Patrick Foley but still went by Boyne. Her brother Tommy died in WW1 RDF Second Battalion. Petersen’s Lane was 1901 census, then Townsend St. Patrick was a coal labourer, probably drank at Ned’s since they were open at 7am for the dock workers night shift.
you missed out Granby Lane off Parnell Square ,i used to hire a Handcart from there in the 1950s once a month to take cardboard shoe boxes to the Waste Paper Company .off Talbot Street going by Bretts Linen Shop into Corpration street toward’s Gloucester Diamond and Gloucester Street in that area ,anyone remember this area,or better still anyone know ,where i can buy a street map of Dublin with all the old street name on I.e Tyrone Street,Mabbot Street, so i can check out family history in north inner city,That tie in with the 1901 census
.( just remembered another lane missing off the list Mabbot Lane between Bretts Linnen Shop and Moran’s Hotell , Talbot Street. )
You do not need to buy a map, just view it on the Ordnance Survey Ireland website; osi.ie . or shop,osi,ie then click on mapviewer. you will see a modern streetmap, which can be changed to the first edition 6 inch map of the 1830s or the 25 inch map surveyed about 1900. You can even use the slider to fade from historic map to modern map.
The 25 inch map is set around the 1901/1911 census era.
I am doing the family tree and I have come across Fulliams lane in Harolds cross. can anyone help? 1876 or so
Trying to track down an old school friend from St Brigid’s school in Dublin, Bernadette Kindillion, she lived on Fr. Mathew Square Dublin.
Did you find Bernie? Last I heard she moved to Trim. I would love to see her. I’ve been living abroad now here in Dublin
Thank you
Gabrielle
Thanks for your help, I have been searching for old photos of long lane for so long
Regards
Eamon
Hi, does anyone know anything about 24 Cole Alley,Dublin. In the 1800s there was a silk weaver there for many years called William Donne. I think he may have been my grandpa’s grandfather. My grandpa’s father married a Frances Jane Donne(b.1831) who immigrated from Dublin to Australia in 1850 on the “Maitland”.
Regards
Marj
I also had ancestors who lived at 9 Hanover Lane/Street in the first half of 1800s. they were silk weavers too.
My father grew up in Fearon’s Court (2 parents;7 kids in one room). The family, much later,moved to Mary Aikenhead Flats off James’s Street. Are there any articles or photos of Fearon’s Court? It is a Court that is often mentioned but for whatever reason never shows up on any maps!
I was looking at a Directory for 1918. It gets a mention and the spelling is Ferons Court,Cross Kevins Street, Wood Quay. South Dublin.Regards Kaye
Does anyone know where is/was Off or Of Lane?
MARTIN my great grandparents were from Corry (Cory) Lane but I can find no trace of such. Can anyone asssit?
I was researching this lady & it came up, so looks like it was near St. Michan’s eChurch. I don; think it is there anymore
Area – DUBLIN (RC) , Parish/Church/Congregation – ST. MICHAN
Baptism of MARY O’ FARRELL of CORY, LANE on 19 October 1855
Would anybody know where Ralph Place is or was – listed as North Dock Dublin on the 1901 census
Stephens Lane/Place off Mount Street Upper … ?☘️ My ancestors were in the early 20th cc above a corner shop …
Hi David, were your ancestors Mr & Mrs Jago, and was the shop 59 Power’s Court? If so, it was rebuilt to the original dimensions in 2006.