Earl to Exchequer explained and dated.

Earl-str.

1. S. (Meath-str.) 1728.

From the Earl of Meath. See Ardee-str.

2. N. (Sackville-str.) 1756.

From the Earl of Drogheda. See Drogheda-str.

Earlsfort-ter. (Hatch-str.) 1839.

From Baron Earlsfort cr. 1784, - a title of the Earl of Clonmell. See Clonmell-str.

Eastmoretand-pl. (Baggot-str. up.) 1830.

East-rd. (Sheriff-str. up.) 1851. -wall. 1876.

From their position on the East of Dublin.

Eccles-str. (Dorset-str.) 1772.

From Sir John Eccles, owner of property here, L.M. 1710.

Echlin’s-la. (S. James’s-str.) 1766. = -str. 1821.

From the Rev. Henry Echlin (bapt. at S. John’s, Dublin, 26 Feb., 1684, son of Sir Henry Echlin, baron of the Exchequer), vicar of S. Catherine’s, 1716, and thence of S. James’s, where he died 13 Oct., 1752. (Hughes’s S. John’s, 87.)

Eden-qu. (Beresford-pl.) 1796. [Statute.]

From the Right Hon. Wm. Eden, Chief Secretary, 1780-82, cr. Baron Auckland, 1789. In a letter from him, dated 27 Oct., 1782, addressed to the Rt. Hon. John Beresford, he writes -‘If our great plans should ever go into execution for the improvement of Dublin, I beg that you will contrive to edge my name into some street or into some square, opening to a bridge, the bank, or the four courts.’ (Correspondence of the Rt. Hon. John Beresford, London, 1854, i. 233.)

Edge’s-ct. (S. Kevin-str.) 1784. -squ. 1776.

Lord Edward-str. (Cork-hill.) 1886.

From Lord Edward Fitzgerald (1763-98), patriot, - 4th son of James, 1st Duke of Leinster.

Opened and named, 27 July, 1886, by the Rt. Hon. T. D. Sullivan, M.P., Lord Mayor. [Mr. Edwin Hamilton had humorously proposed that it should be named either Street-str., or Roe-row,-from the architect, or the restorer, of the adjoining Christ Church Cathedral.]

Egan’s-la. (Hanbury-la.) 1766.

Eglinton-ter.

From the Earl of Eglinton (1812-61), L.L. 1852-53, 1858-59.

1. (Seville-pl.) 1853.

2. (Royal-canal.) 1854.

3. (Wellington-rd.) 1861.

Elbow-la. From its crooked course.

1. (Meath-str.) 1728.

Separated into Elbow-la. and Little Elbow-la., 1756.

2. (Mercer-str. lr.) 1728.

Now contracted into ‘Bow-la. (Beaux-la., 1756.)

Eldon-et. (Cork-str) 1840.

From Wm. Eldon, grocer (at 29 Chambre-str. from 1830-1842)?

Eldon-ter. (S.C. R.) 1846.

Built by the late Alderman J. O. Bonsall, who named it after John Scott (1751-1838), 2nd Earl of Eldon, Lord Chancellor of England.

Elephant-la. (Sackville-str. up.) 1777. [Map.]

The suggestion that this is a corruption of Mellifont-la. (cf. Drogheda-str.) seems little likely to be correct, as these names are given to different lanes in the same map. Was it also known as Menagerie-la? and, if so, might not this suggest the correct derivation? Or was there a tavern with the sign of all Elephant?

Now called Tyrone-pl. (Mellifont-la. is now Sackville-pl.)

Elgin-rd. (Ball’s-br.) 1863.

From James Bruce (1811-63), 8th Earl of Elgin, Governor General of India, 1861.

Elizabeth-str. (Synnot-pl.) 1795.

Ellis’s-br. See Bridges (Liffey, Queen’s br) qu 1766.

From Sir John and Sir Wm. Ellis through whom the Agar-Ellises, Viscounts Clifden, derived a valuable leasehold interest from the Corporation of Dublin along Arran quay and westward to the Phoenix park Some of the leases date from 1662, and have maps of parts of the Liffey as forming the boundary of the demised premises (Haliday, Prendergast’s Life of, pp. xxi., xxii.)

Ely-pl. (Hume-str.) 1773.

From Viscount Loftus of Ely, who lived there.

It was also called Hume-row (q.v.) in 1773.

Mary, dau. of Sir Gustavus Hume, bart., m. (173-) Nicholas Loftus (d. 1766), Baron, Viscount, and Earl of Ely. Henry Loftus, 3rd Earl of Ely, built the house, 8 Ely-p1., and inherited Rathfarnham Castle. [Article by Mr. J. P. Prendergast in Irish Times of 19 May, 1891. Cf. the neighbouring Hume-str.]

Ely-pI. up. is also called Smith’s-buildings, 1837.

Emerald-str. (Sheriff-str. lr.) 1846. -p1. 1848.

Emmet-str. (Fitzgibbon-str.) 1873.

From Robert Emmet, patriot, -b. in Dublin, 1778, executed in front of S. Catherine’s Church, Dublin, 1803.

Emor-str. (S.C. R.) 1870. Emorville-ter. 1870. -ave. 1877

Engine-al. (Meath-str.) 1766.

It appears as Indian-al. in Rocque’s map of 1756, - where (by mistake?) Swift’s-al. and Indian-al. are transposed.

English’s-ct. (Corn-market.) 1766.

Epworth-ter. (N.C.R.) 1846.

Erne-str. (Brunswick-str. gt.) 1794.

From the Earl of Erne, owner of property here. (See Creighton-str.)

Essex-br. See Bridges (Liffey, - Grattan). -gate. 1678 (built 1675 on site of Isod’s-tower). -str. 1697. -quay, 1756.

From Arthur Capel, Earl of Essex, L.L. 1672-77. (Cf. Capel-str.)

The N. end of Parliament-str. was called Essex-br. until 1883.

Eustace-br. See Bridges (Grand-canal).

Eustace-str. (Dame-str.) 1728.

From Sir Maurice Eustace (d. 1665), Speaker of the Ho. of Commons, 1639, Lord Chancellor, 1644, - whose residence and gardens stood on the site of this street. [Cf. Cork-hill, Temple-la., Fownes-str., and Anglesey-str.]

Ewingstown. (Basin-la. up.) 1833.

Exchange-str. 1776. -ct. 1792. = al. 1769.

From their proximity to the Exchange (foundation stone laid 2 Aug. 1769 - opened, 1779), -inaugurated as the City Hall, 30 Sept. 1852.

Exchange-str. was called Scarlet-al. in 1619, and Blind-qu. up. It was also called Isod’s-la., q.v.

Exchange-str. lr. was formerly the Blind-qu. [Gilb. Hist. Dubl. i., 93, 117, 121.]

Exchequer-str. (George’s-str., sth.) 1776.

From the Old Exchequer, situated in or near this str., which in 1728 appears as Chequer-la.

Since 1838 the eastern end of the str. has been called Wicklow-str.

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