Lacey to Luxembourg explained and dated.

Lacy’s-row. (Merrion-str. up-) 1769. = -la. 1776.

Lad-la. (Baggot-str. lr.) 1824. [Thoroughfare shown, 1800.]

Lamb-al.

1. (Corn-market.) 1710. [Par. Reg., S. Audoen’s.]

From a tavern with the sign of the ‘Holy *Lamb.’

*2. (Meath-str.) 1766.

3. (High-str.) 1766. [So Harris, - who gives all three. But was there a Lamb-al. in High-str., distinct from that in Corn-market?]

Lane’s-la. (Summer-hill.) 1798. [Whitelaw.]

(See observation under Lord Edward-str.)

Langrishe-pl. (Summer-hill.) 1795.

From the Rt. Hon. Sir Hercules Langrishe, Bart., M.P. (d. 1811), - whose property it was.

Lansdowne-rd. (Northumberland-rd.) 1855.

The 4th Marquis of Lansdowne (cr. 1784) d. i866. (Cf. the neighbouring Shelbourne-rd., 1868.)

Latin-ct. (Greek-str.) 1756.

Was it originally Lattin’s-ct.? Did it not suggest (by association of ideas) the later name, Greek-str., - by which name Cow-la. has been known since 1776? (Cf. the neighbouring Bull-la. Cf. also S. Luke-str., near S. Mark’s Church, - and Mark’s-al., near S. Luke’s Church.)

La Touche-br. See Bridges (Grand Canal).

Lazars’-hill. (Townsend-str. S.) 1657. [Haliday, 240]

‘On this elevated ridge, about the year 1220, an hospital is said to have been founded for pilgrims intending to embark for the shrine of S. James of Compostella, the patron saint of lepers [or lazars,-from Lazarus], from which the termination of Townsend-str. received the name of Lazars’-hill.’ [Haliday, 148.]

Also called Lazy -, Lazey -, Lazie -, and Lazer’s-hill. See Steyne, - also S. Stephen.

Lee’s-la. (Aston’s-qu.) 1128.

Called Aston’s-pl. since 1885.

Leeson’s-walk. 1756. -str. 1765. -yd. 1766. -pk. 1860.

From Joseph Leeson (cr. Earl of Milltown, 1763), who in 1735 leased part of his garden, near S. Stephen’s-green. [Haliday, ‘93.]

In 1756, the south side of S. Stephen’s-green, q.v., is called Leeson’s-walk.

In 1728, Leeson-str. lr. is strangely called (probably by a mis-print) Suesy-str. in Brooking’s map.

Leinster-str.

1. (Kildare-str.) 1756.

From Viscount Leinster, - cr. such in 1747, and Duke of Leinster in 1766. Cf. Kildare-str., q.v., and Leinster-house.

It was formerly included, with Nassau-str. and Lincoln-p1., in S. Patrick’s-well-la., 1728.

2. (Phibsborough.) 1884.

From the province of Leinster. Cf. the neighbouring Connaught - and Munster-streets.

3. (North-strand.) 1880.

Lemon-str. (Grafton-str.) 1871.

From Mr. Graham Lemon, confectioner, - who bought property here.

Formerly called Span’s-la., 1728, Grafton la., 1795, and Little Grafton-str., 1837.

Lemont’s-la. (Abbey-str.) 1766.

Lennox-str. (Richmond-str.) 1832. -p1. 1834.

From Charles Lennox, Duke of Richmond, - L.L., 1807-13. (Cf. the neighbouring Richmond-str., 1817, q.v.)

Leo-str. (Synnot-pl.) 1890.

From Leo XIII., - elected Pope, 1878.

Leventhorpe’s-al. (S. Werburgh-str.) 16—.

From Ralph Leventhorpe, - M.P. for Ennis in 1639, - who lived here.

It was subsequently called Gun-al., q.v., - and it was situated immediately to the south of S. Werburgh’s School-house. [Hughes’s S. John’s, 1364

Lewis’s-yd. (South Great George’s-str.) 1766.

Liberty-la. (S. Kevin-str.) 1756.

From its being close to the entrance (S. Kevin’s-gate or -port) to the liberty of S. Sepulchre’s. (See Gates.)

The Liberties specified in Rocque’s map of 1773, are:-

1. The Lord Mayor’s.

2. The Archbishop of Dublin’s.

3. The Earl of Meath’s.

The Liberties specified in Cooke’s map of 1821 are:-

1. Grangegorman, including Christ Church yard.

2. Kilmainham.

3. S. Thomas Court,-and

4.* *Donore.

5. Deanery of S. Patrick’s.

6. S. Sepulchre’s.

In 1409 we meet with ‘the lordship of Grangegorman. [Dep. Keep. Rep., xxiii. 136.]

In 1579 we meet with the liberty of the glebe of S. Patrick’s[Gilb. Cal. Dubl., ii. 139.]

In the 1st Rep. of the Com. on Municipal Corporations (Ireland), 1835, p. 289, Appendix II. - on Manorial Jurisdictions or Liberties, - will be found a full treatment of this subject.

Library-al. (S. Bride-str.) 1754.

From the adjoining Library, - founded in 1694 by Abp. Narcissus Marsh (1638-1713), - an entrance to which was through this passage.

Liffey-str.

From the River Liffey, or Anna Liffey, mentioned as Auenelith, in a charter, dated 1192. See Rivers. [Cf. Avon.]

1. E. (Batchelor’s-walk.) 1728.

It extended originally (as up., mid., and lr., 1756) from the quays to Great Britain-str., and included the present Denmark-str. lit. (1773).

2. W. (Pembroke-qu.) 1756.

Lilly’s-la. (S. Patrick-str.) 1708. [S. Audoen’s Bar. Reg.]

Lime-str.

1. (Sir John Rogerson’s-qu.) 1728.

2. (Frenchman’s-la.) 1756. [Now non-existent.]

Limekiln-yd.

1. (S. Thomas-sir.) 1756.

2. (King-str. S.) 1798. [Whitelaw.]

Limerick-al. (S. Francis-stn) 1728.

Lincoln-pI. (Leinster-stn) 1852.

Included in S. Patrick’s-well-la., 1728. Called S. Patrick’s-la., 1756, -Park-pl., 1773, -and Park-str., 1792. For this last name, the present name was substituted in 1862, on account of the previous bad repute in which the street was held. (Cf. French-str. and Hill-str.)

Lincoln-la. (Arran-qu.) 1776.

Linenhall-str. (King-stn N.) 1756.

From the Linen Hall - opened, 1726, closed, 1873.

Lisburn-str. (Linen-hall-str.) 1756.

From ideas associating towns in the north of Ireland with our Linen-hall, - which was surrounded by Coleraine-str., Derry-str., Lisburn-str., Lurgan-str., Linen-hall-str., and Yarn-hall-str.

Lith-horus-str. (Parish of S. Nicholas Within.) Before 1534.

This is mentioned in the Crede Mihi of Abp. Alan (d. 1534).

[Irish Builder, 1 March, 1889.]

Little-Green (King-str. N.) 1719. [Statute.]

From the larger Abbey*-green *(1568) of S. Mary’s-abbey.

In Rocque’s map of 1756; this is a void space, on which New-gate Prison (taken down, 186-) was subsequently built.

The name still appears daily in the newspaper reports of the state of the butter-market.

Little-Green-str. (S. Mary’s-la.) 1862.

From Little-Green, mentioned above. Formerly Petticoat-la., 1756-1864.

Litton’s-ct. (Coombe, lr.) 1766. -la. (Batchelor’s-walk.) 1766.

Liverpool-rd. (Grand Canal, Portobello.) 1868-87.

Loftus-la. (Capel-str.) 1728?) 1756.

Sir Dudley Loftus, (1618-95), orientalist, was bur. in S. Patrick’s, Dublin.

Called (apparently in error) Luptus-la., 1728.

Lombard-str.

1. E. (Brunswick-str. gr.) 1794.

In 1773, it is called Hervey’s-yd.

In map of 1821, it includes Peterson’s-la.

2. W. (Arnott-str., S. C. R.) 1873.

From Jas. Fitzgerald Lombard, esq., J. P., - who, with Sir John Arnott and Mr. MacMahon, purchased property here, where three streets were called after their several names.

Long-entry. (Tripoli.)

The only ‘entry’ in Dublin.

Long-la. (New-str.) 1756.

From its length in extending from New-str. to Camden-str.

Longford-str. (Aungier-str.) 1728. (lit. 1756; gr. 1766.)

-la. 1728.

From the Aungiers, Earls of Longford, who resided here, - whose title became extinct in 1704.

Longstick-la. (Merchants’-qu.) 1679.

A corruption of Lowestock’s-la., 1270, q.v.

Also called (and to this day) Rosemary-la., 1607.

Long-stone. (Townsend-str. S.) 1462. [Gilb. Cal. Dub. i. 313.)

From a pillar stone once erected near where the Crampton memorial now stands, - shown in a map of 1654, given in Haliday, 151. It was probably a stone of memorial, raised at a Scandinavian landing-place, and a mark of possession taken. It gave name to the district east of Dublin, denominated the ‘Stein,’ or ‘Staine.’ (See Haliday, lxxvi., cxviii. 144-152, 180.)

Longwood-ave. (S. C. R.) 1847.

Lord Edward-str. See above, under the letter E.

Lord Galway’s-walk. See above, under the letter G.

Lotebourne-la. (Mullinahack.) 1347. [Gilb. Cal. Dubl., i. 123.]

‘A lane called Lotebourne, extending from the King’s high way, - outside Gormund’s Gate, towards the east, - so far as the garden of Lord Elias de Ashebourne, knight, towards the west.’

Lots, the. (Liffey-str. lr.) 1756.

A name given to the lane at the back of Batchelor’s-walk.

Lots, the. (Mouth of Liffey.) N. Lots, 1773. S. Lots, 1799.

From the fact that, in 1717-18, the Corporation distributed among themselves, in lots (and by drawing lots), the land to be gained by the building of the North-wall. In Brooking’s map of 1728, these areas are still represented as covered by the tide. (Haliday, cxix. 248.)

Statute 32, Geo. III., speaks of Kent’s and Le Favre’s lots, - of Edward Kent, of Geo. Kent; and of Nicholas Le Favre. (These names are also seen, in the Merrion-sq. stat. of 1791, as the names of residents in that Square.)

Lots-rd. (Ringsend-rd. to Beggars’-bush.)

From the townland, called South Lots, - near the Grand Canal Docks.

In 1795 it was called Great Britain-qu., q.v.

Lough-buoy. (Bow-str. 1734.

From (it is said) a stagnant pool of water, known as the yellow lough. [Not noticed by Joyce.]

This name was formerly applied to the northern end of what is now Bow-sir., q.v. (Can Bow be a corruption of buoy?)

Lovat’s-ct. (Copper-al.) 1766.

From Christopher Lovett, of Blind-qu. lr., - L.M. 1676. [See Hughes’s S. John, 85, 87, 95-]

Love-la.

1. (Cuffe-str.) 1728.

Called, in 1733, Little Cuffe-str., - in 1776, French-str., - and now (since 1860, on account of previous bad repute) Mercer-str. up., q.v. (Cf. for a similar reason for change of name, Lincoin-pl. and Hill-str.)

2. (S.C. R.) 1756.

3. (Mount-str. lr.) 1824.

Lowestock-la. (Merchants’-qu.) 1270. [D. IC. R., xx. 52.)

An Adam Louestoc, bailiff (= sheriff) is mentioned later, in 1340. [ibid., xxiii. 105.] L.M. 1352.

The name was corrupted into Lovestock-la. (1403), Woodstock-la. (1610), and Longstick-la. (1679). It has been also known as Rosemary-la., q.v., since 1607.

Lucy’s-la. (King’s Inns-qu.) 1766.

Now Chancery-pl.? See Mass-la.

Luke (S.)-str. See S. Luke-str.

Lullymore-ter. (Parnell-br.) 1882.

From Lullymore, - a parish in the Co. Kildare, the native place of Mr. Farrell, the builder of the terrace.

Lundy’s-ct. -la. (Long-la.) 1840. -ter. i86o.

From Mr. James Lundy, grocer, 34 New-str. (1840).

Luptus-la. (Capel-str.) 1728.

Probably a mis-print for Loftus-la., q.v.

Lurgan-str. (King-str. N.) 1756. See Lisburn-str.

Luxembourg, the. (Gloucester-str. lr.) 1321. A name given in Cooke’s map of 1821 to Aldborough-ho. (see Aldborough-ct.), taken as a public school in 1813, by Professor Von Feinaigle, of Luxembourg, - who gave it this name. (See Irish Builder, 15 Aug. 1874.)

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