Cathedral Street, Dublin

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Cathedral Street
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Native nameSráid na hArdeaglaise (Irish)
Former name(s)Elephant Lane, Tyrone Place
Namesake St Mary's Pro-Cathedral
TypeStreet
Length130 m (430 ft)
Location Dublin, Ireland
Postal code D01
Coordinates 53°21′02″N6°15′34″W / 53.3505376°N 6.25936366°W / 53.3505376; -6.25936366
West end O'Connell Street
East end Marlborough Street

Cathedral Street is a street in central Dublin, Ireland, formerly known as Elephant Lane and Tyrone Place.

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Location

Dublin Martyrs memorial at Cathedral side of Pro-Cathedral Dublin Martyrs at side of St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral.jpg
Dublin Martyrs memorial at Cathedral side of Pro-Cathedral

Cathedral Street runs from O'Connell Street Upper to Marlborough Street. St Mary's Pro-Cathedral sits on the corner of Cathedral and Marlborough Streets. [1]

History

On 18th century maps of Dublin, this street is named Elephant Lane. McCready attributes this to a corruption of Mellifont Lane, Menagerie Lane, or due to the presence of a tavern on the street with a sign featuring an elephant. [2] According to the 1850 New City Pictorial Directory, besides four vacant buildings, Elephant Lane's occupants included, a plumber, locksmith, job coach establishment, an ivory turner, two booksellers and two vintners. [3] The street was later known as Tyrone Place from 1870 due to it leading to Tyrone House, [4] and was renamed Cathedral Street in 1900. [5]

The Post Office Tavern was at No. 9 Elephant Lane and from 1854 run by a James Kenny until 1870 when he is the hotel and tavern keeper of the Post Office Hotel now noted to be in Tyrone Place. John Nagle is the proprietor of the establishment in 1875. [6]

The historic house, Drogheda House, since demolished was on the corner of Cathedral Street and O'Connell Street, and dated from 1751. The eastern side of Cathedral Street survived the destruction of the Easter Rising in 1916 but was later destroyed during the Civil War in 1922. [7]

Plans to refurbish Cathedral Street with Sackville Place to facilitate better pedestrian access between the Luas lines were scrapped in 2018. [8]

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References

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  2. M'Cready, C. T. (1987). Dublin street names dated and explained. Blackrock, Co. Dublin: Carraig. p. 34. ISBN   1850680000.
  3. Shaw, Hanry (1850). New City Pictorial Directory 1850, (reprint 1988). Dublin: Henry Shaw. ISBN   0-946872-11-2.
  4. Cosgrave, Augustine Dillon (1969). "North Dublin City". Dublin Historical Record. Dublin: Old Dublin Society. 23 (1): 21. ISSN   0012-6861. JSTOR   30082548 . Retrieved 8 March 2021.
  5. "8. Elephant Lane and co". Come Here To Me!. 12 November 2011. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
  6. French, E.J. (31 December 1981). "Tavern Tokens". The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Dublin: Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. 8 (2): 167, 169. ISSN   0035-9106. JSTOR   25549752 . Retrieved 8 March 2021.
  7. Casey, Christine (2005). Dublin : the city within the Grand and Royal Canals and the Circular Road with the Phoenix Park. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. pp. 213, 214. ISBN   9780300109238.
  8. Kelly, Olivia (14 May 2018). "Councillors axe plans to upgrade Dublin streets". The Irish Times. Retrieved 7 March 2021.