Ireland’s Housing Name Game

Customs House Quay. More informative name than Stack A, I’d contend.

Being told aged twleve that I couldn’t post leaflets in a street in Harolds cross because it was a private road called corporation place

There is a subhurb in Sydney called Killarney Heights where many of the streets have Irish names Donegal Road, Galway Avenue, Shamrock Parade etc. – I kid you not.

Then you have all those housing estates littered throughout the country called Kennedy Park, or similar.

One thing I find rather annoying is the name of my local Luas stop; Blackhorse. It’s named after the Black Horse Inn, which is fine, as it has always been a major landmark for people driving in from the Naas Road, but changing it to a single word gives the impression that someone thought a name that sounds like a London Underground station might be less ‘common’. Besides, there’s already a Blackhorse Avenue at the other side of the city.

I’m sure it’s only a matter of time before a Blackhorse Court apartment building makes an appearance.

Brilliant scheme indeed Mr Jackwade, though not without its faults

If your estate requires a 3 word name simply choose 3 words and join the first 2 together e.g Riverwood Court, Willowpark Grove etc.

Eg. St Patrick’sSt Joseph’sboro
Glenbally Glen.

No-one seems to have mentioned the Irish names which are just as crappily pieced together. A development in my locality is called Páirc na gCapaill even though the previous owner of the land tells us that there has been nothing but tillage on the land for the past twenty years. The main reason I don’t like them is because they seem far too fabricated, despite their attempt to be more ‘authentic’ than the more anglicised placenames

@David Chambers wrote:

Could anyone tell me who Oscar Traynor was? I gather that he was a minister.

He was among our nation’s founders, and a good foreign games man to boot. Read some books.

A long-established plant nursery outside Kenmare became known to all and sundry locally as “The Glasshouses.” When the inevitable sale and redevelopment came about, the new address became “Pairc na Gloinne” (“the park of glass” for the non-gaelgoiri.)

Other gems are Orchard Grove Court, and at Sneem one called Atlantic Gateway, not within an ass’ roar of the sea, let alone the Atlantic, and built facing a mountain.
KB2

@KerryBog2 wrote:

A long-established plant nursery outside Kenmare became known to all and sundry locally as “The Glasshouses.” When the inevitable sale and redevelopment came about, the new address became “Pairc na Gloinne” (“the park of glass” for the non-gaelgoiri.)

Other gems are Orchard Grove Court, and at Sneem one called Atlantic Gateway, not within an ass’ roar of the sea, let alone the Atlantic, and built facing a mountain.
KB2

Did it even have a gate?

I do remember my Irish teacher rambling on about some inaccurate or downright wrong translations of english language placenames. I cant remember exactly the examples he gave us, but one was something like there being a field called Littlerock and it was changed into ‘An Carraigín’, which is the word for carrageen moss.

The roads in 1930’s Crumlin are called after monastic related ‘stuff’ for want of a better explination. All except for Captains Road.

Drimnagh are named after Mountains.

My own Ravensdale Drive is named after one of the many mills which once lined the banks of the poddle river, along with Larkfield Road….

The estates up in Templeogue are named after local houses eg Orwell, Rossmore, Kennington, Osprey, all of which can be traced back a long way according to Handcocks history of Templeogue / Tallaght.

Wellington Lane (templeogue) is named after the Duke of wellington, however Willington was a variation on that due to some of the locals being very anti british… Similar to the case of part of Exchequar street being renamed to Wicklow street to increase rents…. (correct me on that please Ive only half heard the story)…

The liberties comes from Henry the 8th granting the people from this area the LIBERTY to trade both inside and outside the pale, while not paying the taxes of the pale…

A very interesting one is whitehall road in Terenure…. The irish on the road is ‘Bóthar na Racadair’ (recorders road),,,,, a small little extension to the road into the old kimmage manor was then named ‘The Recorders’…

There are so so many more around my area its a list i muct compile!

One end of the mews lane behind Beresford Place, Dublin 1, reads “Frenchman’s Lane” and the other end reads “Frenchmen’s Lane”.