Walker to York explained and dated

Walker’s-al.

S. (S. Patrick’s-close, N.) 1754.

Wm. Walker was L.M. 1737 and 1747. John Walker was L.M. 1744.

N. (Arran-str. E.) 1776.

Wall’s-la. (S. Francis-str.) 1792.

Walworth-rd. (Victoria-str.) 1871.

Wapping-str. (North-wall.) 1799.

? Borrowed from London street-names.

Ward’s-hill. (Mill-str.) 1756.

Warren-mount. (Mill-str.) 1784.

From Nathaniel Warren, - Sheriff, 1773 ; L.M., 1782; M. P. for Dublin City, 1784; Chief Commissioner of Police, 1794.

Warren-str. (Portobello.) 1883.

So called by the A. D. C. from Robert Warren, esq., D. L. - one of their Directors.

Warrington-pl. (Mount-str. lr. 1795.

Warwick-ter. (Leeson-park.) 1862.

Washerwoman’s-la. (S. Catherine’s-parish.) 1798. [Whitelaw]

Washington -row. (Summer-hill.) 1799.

From George Washington (1732-99), - 1st President of the United States.

Washington-str.

N. (N. C. R. - Summer-hill.) 1818-38.

See Nugent-str.

S. (S. C. R.) 1880.

So called by Peter Doyle, Miles Breslin, and Michael Fleury, - who, returning from America, purchased this ground from Mr. Joseph Kelly, S. Thomas-str., and named the new street from the capital of the U.S.A.

Water-row. (Ormond-qu. up.) 1776. [Thoroughfare shown, 1756.]

Waterloo-ave. (North-strand.) 1841. -buildings. -ter. 1846.

From the battle of Waterloo, - won by Wellington, 18 June, 1815.

Waterloo-rd. (Pembroke-rd.) 1846. -ter.

In this neighbourhood are Wellington-rd., Raglan-rd., Clyde-rd., and Elgin-rd.

Watery-la. (old Kilmainham-la.) 1849. [Thoroughfare in 1756?] **

Watling-str. (Usher’s-qu.) 1766.

**Why so called? After the London Watling-str.?

Why called Twatling-str., q.v., 1728-65?

Weavers’-sq. (Ormond-str.) 1756.

From the trade of Weavers, - which was once brisk in the Earl of Meath’s Liberty. In 1852, a silk weaver is given in the Directory as resident here. (Cf. the neighbouring Tenter-fields.) **

Webster-**pl. (Haddington-rd.) 1840.

From Messrs. Michael Webster & Son, - flag, brick, and slate merchants, near here, since 1833.

Wellesley-pl. (Russell-str.) 1840.

From Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington, - or from Richard Colley Wellesley, Marquis Wellesley, L.L., 1821-28, 1833-34.

Wellington-br. 1816. See Bridges (Liffey).

Wellington-pl.

I. W. (Grand Canal-bank, - Clanbrassil-str.) 1824.

From this, the neighbouring *Wellington-*barracks - lately Richmond-bridewell - derive (perhaps indirectly) their name. (Cf. Marlborough-barracks.)

N. (Mountjoy-str.) 1832.
E. (Leeson-str. up.) 1841.

Wellington-qu. 1819. See Quays.

Wellington-rd. (Pembroke-rd.) 1846.

See Waterloo-rd.

Wellington-sq. (Hatch-str.) 1846.

This name was given to the ground in front of S. Matthias’s Church, of which the foundation-stone was laid in 1842.

Wellington-str. (Dorset-str. up.) 1816. [Map.]

Previously called Paradise-row; 1776.

Wellington-view. (Phibsborough.) 1841.

Wentworth-pl. (Denzille-str.) 1805.

From Wentworth, -a name in Earl Fitz-William’s family. Chas. Wm. Wentworth Fitz-william, 5th Earl Fitz-William, b. 1786. d. 1857. (See Holles-str.)

Werburgh (S.)-stn See-S. Werburgh-str.

Westenra’s-al. (Bridge-str. lr.) 16—.

From the family of Warner Westenra, a naturalized Dutch man (ancestor of Lord Rossmore), - bur. in S. Audoen’s, 1667. (See Lord Galway’s-walk.)

Westland-row. (Brunswick-str. gr.) 1776.

Previously called simply Westland’s, 1773, - from Wm. Westland, an owner of property here. [One William Westland, of Cow-la., was buried in S. Audoen’s, 22 May, 1730.]

Westmoreland-br. See Bridges (Royal Canal).

Westmoreland-str. (College-green.) 1801.

From John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland, -L.L. 1790-94.

Westmoreland-row. (Fitz-Gibbon-pl., Portland-str.) 1795-1836.

West-road. (East-wall, North-strand). 1773.

Wexford-str. (S. Kevin-str.) 1839.

Formerly called S. Kevin’s-port. (See Gates.)

Wheeler’s-al. (Cole’s-la.) 1766.

Whinnery’s-al. (S. Mary’s-abbey.) 1756.

Whitecross-al. (S. Patrick-str.) 1766.

White’s-ave. (Merrion.) 1834.

? From Henry White, -o f Rosanna Cottage, resident here in 1840.

White’s-ct.**

**1. S. (Ship-str.) 1766.

N. (Purdon-str.) 1836.

3.W. (Bull-la.) 1846.

White’s-la.

(George’s-qu.) 1728. [Now Corn.Exchange-pl.]
(Dorset-str. up.) 1792.
(Tyrone-str. lr.) 1845.
(Gregg’s-la.) 1846.
(230 Phibshorough-rd.) 1849.

White’s-qu. (George’s-qu.) 1766.

Probably now included in Burgh-qu. See Quays.

Whitefriars’-la. (= Whitefriars’-str.) 1577. [G.C.D., ii. 548.]

From the Carmelite or Whitefriars’ Monastery, built by Sir Robert Bagot in 1278, - dissolved in 1539, - and rebuilt in 1825.

By Whitefriars’-la., Stanihurst (l.c.) evidently means the present Whitefriars’-str.

The present Whitefriars’-la. (formerly extending from Whitefriars’-str. to Aungier-str.) dates from before 1756, - and Whitefriars’-ct. from 1840.

[Annals of this Carmelite Church will be found in the Irish Builder, of 15 Sept., 1891.]

Whitefriars’-pl. (Aungier-str.) 1871.

Formerly called York-row, q.v.

Whitehall-ct. (King-str. N.) 1776. [Not in Directory, 1803.]

Whitehall-str.

S. (Marrowbone-la.) 1795-1839.

Whitelaw gives White’s-hall here, in 1798.

N. (King-str. N.) 1803-1808.

Whitehall-yd. (S. Francis-str.) 1766. **

White-horse-al.

**1. W. (S. Thomas-str.) 1766. [Harris.]

E. (Fishamble-str.) 17—.

White-**horse-**yd. (12 Winetavern-str.) 1824.

From the White Horse [Pyed Horse] House, 1620 - previously called the Frank House or Chamberlain’s Inns, 1568, - and subsequently the Double Inn, 1803. [See Irish Builder, 15 Apr. and 15 May, 1891.]

Also called Mansfield-ct., 1832.

White-lion-al. 1684. [Par. Reg., S. Nicholas Within.]

White-lion-ct. (Strand-str. lit.) 1697. [Statute.]

Whitmore-al. (Dame-str.) 1766. [Harris.]

**Whitworth-**br. See Bridges (Liffey)

From Charles Whitworth, cr. an Irish Baron as Lord Whitworth in 1800, and advanced to an Earldom in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, in i815, - L.L. 1813-17. His titles became extinct at his death in 1825, when his estates passed to his widow, the Duchess of Dorset.

Whitworth (Fever) Hospital, Drumcondra, opened, 1818.

Whitworth (Chronic) Hospital, House of Industry, - opened, before 1824.

Whitworth-pl.

(Coburgh-row, North-strand.) 1824. See Whitworth-row.
(Drumcondra.) 1841.

From Whitworth (Fever) Hospital, 1818.

**Whitworth-**row. (Coburgh-row, North-strand.) 1841.

? Formerly called Whitworth-pl., q.v.

Whitworth-str. (S. C. R.) 1818. [Map.]

This seems to have been a former name (why so quickly abandoned?) for Harrington-str., 1818.

Wicklow-str. (Grafton-str.) 1839.

Why so called?

Previously it was included in Exchequer-str., q.v.

Wilde’s-la. (Sir John Rogerson’s-qu.) 1766. [Harris.]

It appears for the last time in the Directory for 1792.

Williams’s-la.**

**1. N. (Abbey-str. mid.) 1756.

S. (New-str.) 1756.

William-str.

S. (S. Andrew-str.) 1728.

From King William III. The street was given this name probably soon after the battle of the Boyne, 1690. (See Statues.)

N. (North-strand.) 1805.

Wilme’s-ct. (Christ Church-pl.) 1792.

From William Wilme, goldsmith, whose marriage in S.Werburgh’s is recorded there in 1751. [Hughes’s S. Werburgh’s, 113.]

**Wilton-**ter. (Baggot-str. lr.) 1842. -sq. 1846. -pl. 1863.

From Wilton, near Salisbury, the seat of the Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, the owner, - whose estate - office is at No. 1.

Originally called Wilton-square, - though only a few houses on one side of a triangular space.

Windmill-la. (Sir John Rogerson’s-qu.) 1834.

Winetavern-str. (S. Michael’s-hill.) 1329. [D.K. R., xxiii 98.]

‘Vicus tabernariorum vini,’ - called Taverners’-str.; in 1311.

‘Robert de Bristol, citizen of Dublin, quits claim on Mayor and commonalty to 15s. of annual rent from ground, within the walls of Dublin,- in the corner near the Church of S. Nicholas, on the north-side. This quit-claim is in exchange for a tenement where the Guildhall stood in the Taverners-str.,-which the Mayor and commonalty have granted to him.’ [G.C. D., i. III.]

(We find the civic establishmeut successively at the Guild-hall in Taverners’-str., - the Tholsel in Skinner’s-row, - the Assembly-ho. in William-str., - and the City-hall in Cork-hill.)

Winton-rd. (Appian-way.) 1863.

From Archibald Wm. Montgomery. 13th Earl of Eglinton, and 5th Earl of Winton, - L.L., 1852-53, 1858-59.

Wodehouse-ter. (N.C.R.) 1872.

From John Wodehouse, 3rd Baron Wodehouse, - cr. Earl of Kimberley, 1866, - L.L. 1864-66.

Wolfe’s-al. (8-9 Bridge-str. lr.) 1766. [Harris.]

From Marcus Wolfe, glover, of Cook-str., - who d. 1678.

Wood-qu. See Quays.

Wood-str. (S. Bride-str.) 1682.

The Rev. Daniel Wood was Custos of old S. Stephen’s (1224) in 1634. [Carroll’s Succession of S. Bride’s Clergy, 12.] **

Woodstock-la. (Merchants’-qu.) 1610.

World’s-end**-la. (Mabbot-str.) 1756.

Subsequently, 1776, called Montgomery-str., q.v.

Wormwood-gate. See Gates (Gormund’s-gate).

Xavier (S.)-ave. See S. Xavier.

Yarn-hall-str. (Bolton-str.) 1800. [Thoroughfare, 1756.]

From the neighbouring Yarn-hall, marked in Rocque’s map of 1756. (Cf. the Linen-hall, - and Linen-hall-str.]

Yellow-lion-inn-yd. (S. Thomas-str.) 1798. [Whitelaw.]

York-road. (Pigeon-ho-rd.) 1875. [Ordnance map.]

From a row of houses here, called (in 1863) York-ter.

York-row. (Aungier-str.) 1830. Thoroughfare shown. 1825.]

From its proximity to York-str.

Now called Whitefriars’-pl., 1871.

York-str. (S. Stephen’s-green, W.) 1728.

From Ernest Augustus (d. 1728), Duke of York and Albany - brother of George I.

Street Name Index. Home.

Walker to York explained and dated.