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Sráidainmneacha Bhaile Átha Cliath – English-Irish list of Dublin street names at Leathanach baile Shéamais Uí Bhrógáin (in Irish) Dublin Streetnames in Irish – photographs of multiple or incorrect Irish translations of Dublin street names. 1610 Map of Dublin published by John Speed (Perry–Castañeda Library Map Collection
The vast majority of English-language place names in Ireland are anglicisations of Irish language names. The spelling which has legal force is usually that used by the Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Many of Ireland's longest place names are found in the far west of the island, where the Irish language has survived the longest; including Gaeltacht ...
It was developed as a series of sloping terraces, leading from Beresford Place to Mountjoy Square, [3] and was intended to be Dublin's largest, widest, longest and grandest street. However, owing to the Acts of Union in 1801, the economic depression that Dublin experienced and the associated drastic fall in demand for city townhouses, the ...
Ailesbury Road was planned in the middle of the 19th century as a residential road in southeast Dublin, within the Pembroke Township. It was named for George Brudenell-Bruce, 2nd Marquess of Ailesbury, who had married Mary Herbert, a daughter of the Earl of Pembroke. When first built, Ailesbury Road was then the longest straight road in Dublin.
The longest place name in Israel [3] is כעביה-טבאש-חג'אג'רה (21 letters and 2 hyphens), a local council. it is named for the three Bedouin tribes who live there, Ka'abiyye, Tabbash and Hajajre. The longest place names in Poland are Sobienie Kiełczewskie Pierwsze and Przedmieście Szczebrzeszyńskie, with 30 letters (including ...
A further source of place names of other origin is places names after religious sites outside Ireland. Examples are Lourdes Road in Dublin and Pic du Jer Park in Cork. The baronies of North Salt and South Salt are derived from Saltus Salmonis, a Latin calque of the town name of Leixlip (from Norse Lax Hlaup, "salmon leap").
Golden Lane (Irish: Lána an Óir) [1] is a street on the Southside of Dublin city. It runs from Bride Street in the west to Longford Street and Stephen Street in the east. It is intersected by Ship Street Great, Whitefriar Street and Chancery Lane. It is one of the oldest streets in Dublin outside of the old city gates and walls, dating from ...
W. T. Cosgrave (1880-1965), first president of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State, was born on James's Street; The comedian Brendan Grace (1951-2019) lived at 2E Echlin Street, off James's Street, in the early 1960s [6] Mark Sheehan (1976-2023) of the band The Script was originally from the James's Street area