Queen's Square to Ryder's Lane

Queen’s-br. See Bridges (Liffey)

Queen’s-sq. (Brunswick-str. gr.) 1840. [Space shown in map of 1801.]

From Queen Victoria, - who came to the throne in 1837.

Queen-str. (Arran-qu.) 1687. [‘Quin,’ S. Audoen’s Par. Reg.

? From Queen Elizabeth, - queen, 1558-1603.

Christmas Assembly, 1664. - ‘Order, that part of Oxmantown-green be taken and set by lots in fee farm, - reserving a highway [= Queen-str.] and large market-place [= Smithfield].’ (Haliday, 248.)

Queen’s-way (near Buttivant tower). 1594. [G. C. D., ii. 276.]

‘In breadth from the queen’s-way which leadeth from Fish-street unto the gate of the B. V. M. of the dam.’

Quinn’s-la. = -et. (Pembroke-str. up.) 1832.

Racket-ct. (S. John’s-la.) 1840.

Raglan-rd. (Wellington-rd.) 1857. From Fitzroy Somerset (1788-1855), cr., 1852, Lord Raglan, - General in the Crimea.

Rainsford-str. (S. Thomas-ct.) 1728.

From Alderman Sir Mark Rainsford, - Sheriff, 1689-90; L.M., 1700. (Cf. Mark’s-al.?)

Ram-la. = .al. (High-str.) 1404. [Dep. Keep. Rep., xx. 86.]

From a building (a tavern?) called the Ram (1316, - in S. Michael’s parish. - D. K R xxiii 91)

Called subsequently School house la 1577 [Yet, ‘a tenement, called the Ram in High str. is described in 1357 as ‘extending backwards to Rupell-str.,’ - a different side of High-str. from Schoolhouse-la? [Ibid] 113.]

[Raphson’s Rents. These words may be seen at the top of the house at the corner of Cavendish-row and Great Britain-str.]

Rapparee-al. (S. Stephen’s-gr. W.) 1728.

From Rapparee; - Irish (like Tory) for a robber. (Cf. Murdering-la. and Cut-throat-la.)

Now called Glover’s-al. (1766).

Rath-row. (S. Luke-str.) 1833.

? From a rath, through which (as apparently given in Rocque’s map of 1756) it probably passed.

In 1225, we read of a grant of the land, within the city boundaries, called le Rath, - extending westward, to the land of the nuns of the B.V.M. at Hogges; northward, towards Steyn; eastward, to the Dodder; southward, to the road from Dublin to Donnybrook. [G. C. D., i. 87.]

Ratounrew (nr. Pembroke-str-lr.?) 1379. [D.K.R., 23; 123.]

Where was this? What does the name mean? ‘A croft and meadow in the Ratounrew, Dublin, situate between the croft of Sylvester Bagot on the south, that of Wm. Tutberry on the north, the Green of S. Stephen on the south, and the highway in the Ratounrew on the west.’ (D. K R., l. c.) In 1409, it is described as being in the lordship of Grangegorman. (Ibid., 36.)

Raymond-str. (S. C. R.) 1879.

Read’s-al. -ct. (Abbey-str.) 1768.

Read’s-ct. = al. (Greek-str.) 1766.

Read’s-road. (Leeson-park.) 1863.

Now called Northbrook-road (‘877).

Red-Cow-gate-yd. (S. Francis-str.) 1798. [Whitelaw.]

Red-Cow-la. (King-str. N.) 1756.

From a tavern with the sign of the Red Cow? (Cf. Whitehorse-yd.) There was a Red Cow tavern in Church-str.

Red-Lion-Ct. (High-str.) 1776.

From a tavern with the sign of the Red Lion?

See foregoing.

Redmond’s-ct. (Woocl-qu.) 1776.

Redmond’s-hill. (Wexford-str.) 1756.

Reginald-sq. -str. (Plunket-str. area.) 1882.

From Reginald Brabazon (b. 1841), 12th Earl of Meath (1887). So named by the. A. D. C.

(Cf. Ardee-str., Brabazon-str., Chambre-str., Hunt’s-al., Earl-str., and Meath-str. See Henry-str.)

Rehoboth-la. (S.C.R.) 1798. [Whitelaw.] -p1. 1821. [Map.]

From Rehoboth, - in Genesis xxvi. 22. (Isaac ‘called the name of it [the well] Rehoboth [i.e., ‘room’]; and he said, For now the Lord hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.’)

The grand-parents of the late Miss Catherine Morton (1802-89), the occupier of the principal house here, were the owners of the place; and had 24 children who came to maturity, - and, in consideration of the needs of this formidable family, and also of the fact that some good spring-wells existed on the property, they named the place Rehoboth. What now forms three dwelling-houses was then but one residence. One of the 24 children became wife of Sir John A. Stevenson (1762-1833), and grandmother of the 3rd and present Marquis of Headfort (b. 1822).

Reilly’s-ct. (Pimlico.) 1766.

Repeal-pl. (Power’s-ct.) 1857.

From the proposed Repeal of the Union, sought by Daniel O’Connell (1775-1847).

Reynolds’-ct. (Meath-str.) 1776.

Rialto-pl. (S. C. R.) 1870. -ter. 1876.

From the Rialto-br., - a name given to Harcourt-br. (see Bridges, - Grand Canal), from its supposed resemblance to the bridge of that name at Venice.

Richardson’s-ct. (Arran-sttr. E.) 1766.

Richardson’s-la. (Arbour-hill.) 1 756.

Has this been absorbed by additions made to the Royal Barracks, since their erection in 1704?

Richmond-br. See Bndges (Liffey).

Richmond-str.

1. S. (S. C. R.) 1817

From Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond - L.L. 1807-1813. He opened the Portobello (= Richmond) Basin in 1812. (Cf. the adjoining Lennox-str.)

2. N. (N. C. R.) 1829.

From the neighbouring Richmond-pl. (1818)

[Cf. Richmond Bridewell (1813, = Wellington tar racks, 1891), Richmond Lunatic Asylum (1815) Richmond General Penitentiary (1812, = Grangegorman Prison), Richmond Barracks (181-), Richmond Hospital (181- ), and the Richmond Institution for the Blind (1809)]

Rigmaiden’s-yd. (Meath-str.) 1766.

Ringsend-br. See Bridges (Dodder). -rd.

The name Ringsend (1673, - de Gomme) is to be derived from the Irish rinn, an end or point, - the reference being to the point of land, formerly between the Dodder (1238) and the sea. (Joyce, i. 406.) In Sir Bernard de Gomme’s map (Haliday, 229) of 1673, this spit or point is strikingly seen. (The derivation is to be decidedly rejected which would make the name refer to the last of the rings attached to the piles for mooring ships, where Sir John Rogerson’s-quay now confines the Liffey. See Blacker’s Booterstowii, etc., 53.)

Roberts’s-str. (Rainsford-str.) 1756.

? From John Robartes, Lord Robartes, - L.L., 1669-70.

[Yet the name is not in Brooking’s map of 1728.]

Robinson’s-al. (Coombe, lr.) 1766.

Rochel-str. = -Ia. (S. Nicholas-str.) 1195. [D.K.R., xxiii. 77.]

‘Nicholas Sutton leaves legacies to … . the poor of Rechell-str.’ 1478. [ibid. xx. 95.] ‘Vicus Rupelli.’ [Gilb. Hist. Dubl., i. 238.] See Rupelle-str.

Called (as now) Back-la., 1578. ‘Back-la., alias Rochell-la.’ [Fiants.]

Rock-la. (47-48 Baggot-str. Ir.) 1842.

‘The Gallows-hill is marked on the maps of Dublin until after 1756, and the quarry is yet to be traced between *Rock-*la. and Mount-str., both places being very probably named from this rocky gallows mount.’ (Haliday, 170.)

Rogers’-la. (Baggot-str. Ir.) 1834.

From Andrew Rogers, grocer, - 137 Baggot-str. lr., 1818-50.

Rogerson’s-quay. See Quays.

Rope-walk.

I. N. (= Gardiner-str.) 1756.

2.* *W. (= Portland-str. W.) 1756.

3. S. (= Erne-str. ir. and Lime-str.) 1773.

Roper’s-rest. (S.C.R.) 1672. [Par. Reg., S. NicholasWithin.]

= -la. 1720. [It is now known as Greenville-ave.] From Sir Thos. Roper, cr., 1627, Viscount Baltinglass, - who, dying here in 1638, was bur. at S. John’s, Dublin. (Cf. Hughes’s S. John’s, 103.)

Roscommon-market. (Townsend-str.) 1687. From Carey Dillon (1627-89), 5th Earl of Roscommon.

Rose-al. (16-17 Wood-qu.) 1776.

Named from an inn. (Hughes’s S. John’s, 135.)

Rosemary-la. (Merchants’-qu.) 1607. [G. C. D., ii. 490.]

The city assembly agreed that a gate should be erected at each end of the lane, ‘to avoid the noisomeness thereof,’ - ‘to be locked every night and opened every morning.’

In 1270, called the King’s-la. and Lowestock’s-la., - subsequently Lovestoke’s-la. (1403), Longstick-la. (1679), and Woodstock-la. (D.K.R., xx. 52; G.H.D., i. 315.)

Ross-la. (S. Bride-str.) 1712. [S. Werburgh’s Par. Reg.]

Rowning-la. (S. Michael’s-parish.) 1444. [D.K.R., xxiii. 148.]

This la. has been variously called the Rowen-la. (1528), - Cock-hill (1557), - Rowning-la. (1572), - Cock-la. (1579), - Rounde-la. (1594), - and Cock-hill (1756).

Is it the same as Giglotte’s-hill (1541)’ q.v.?

Rowserstown. (Old Kilmainham.) 1841.

Roundhead-row. (Mount-brown.) 1876.

This name (by which the Puritans were called in the time of Chas. I., from their having the hair cut close to the head) was substituted by the Corporation, in 1876, for Cutthroat-la. (1756), q.v. (Cf. Cromwell’s-quarters, q.v.)

Royal-Arcade. (Suffolk-str.) 1820.

Erected by Mr. George Home,-opened in 1819 - burned in 1837. (Cf. Colonnade.)

Royal canal-bank. (Phibsborough.) 1849. From the Royal Canal (Company, 1789), opened 1796.

Royal-circus. (near top of Eccles-str.) 1796. Marked, as projected, in the Directory maps, 1796-1829.

Royal Exchange-al. (Wood-qu.) 1766. [Harris]. Called (by anticipation?0 from the Royal Exchange, - which was not commenced until 1796. See Exchange-str.

Rupelle-str. (Corn-market.) 1234. [D. K. R., xxiii. 79.] Stated by Harris (89) to be the same as the present Back-la. (1610), q.v., - called, in 1195, Rochel-str., q.v.

Russell’s-ct. (Church-str.) 1766. [Harris.]

Russell-pl. -str. (N.C.R.) 1803.

Why so called? John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, had been L.L., 1757-61,-and John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford, was not L.L. until 1806.

Rutland-sq. (Sackville-str.) 1792. [-str. 1792.]

From Chas. Manners (1754-87), 4th Duke of Rutland, - L.L., 1784-87, s. of John, Marquis of Granby. He d. in office. (See Cavendish-str., 1756,—row, 1766, - Granby-row, 1766, - and Palace-row, 1773.)

In 1756, the Square was called New Gardens,-and, in 1773, Bowling Green.

[Rutland-ct. (28-29 Dame-str.) = Chronicle-ct., 1769.]

Ryder’s-la. (Capel-str.) 1756. = -row, 1784.

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