Post weird road names here

Dancor

Ring Street

Gaspode

boneless wrote: »

I grew up around the area so never found it funny but people always laugh when I say there is a place called Fumbally Lane.

Maybe Gav can help me out here... I once heard that the name is a corruption of Fumble Alley. Any one else hear this?

I read once that Fumbally was a corruption of 'Bum Bailiff'.

Definition of Bum Bailiff from here
"A Bum Bailiff was a Sheriff’s officer, who arrests debtors; so called perhaps from following his prey, and being at their bums, or, as the vulgar phrase is, hard at their a-ses. Blackstone says, it is a corruption of bound bailiff, from their being obliged to give bond for their good behaviour."

As far as I can recall, there was a bailiff's office on Fumbally Lane at one stage, so perhaps it has some credence. I read all this as part of a school project many moons ago, so I dont have the original source.

vektarman

Engine Alley and Red cow lane.

boneless

deswalsh wrote: »

I read once that Fumbally was a corruption of 'Bum Bailiff'.

Definition of Bum Bailiff from here
"A Bum Bailiff was a Sheriff’s officer, who arrests debtors; so called perhaps from following his prey, and being at their bums, or, as the vulgar phrase is, hard at their a-ses. Blackstone says, it is a corruption of bound bailiff, from their being obliged to give bond for their good behaviour."

As far as I can recall, there was a bailiff's office on Fumbally Lane at one stage, so perhaps it has some credence. I read all this as part of a school project many moons ago, so I dont have the original source.

Thanks for this info Mate! It does make some sense and is probably researchable. reminds me of how "Hangmans Lane" became Hammond Lane. The fact that a public gallows was there was forgotten but the name remained in a corrupted sense.

mikemac

Rusty Cogs 08 wrote: »

Atmospheric Road (Dalkey)

Probably named after the railway

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalkey_Atmospheric_Railway

Rashers

vektarman wrote: »

Engine Alley

Next time you're passing look at how it's spelled in Irish.

gurramok

Lover's Lane off Mount st!

spurious

boneless wrote: »

I grew up around the area so never found it funny but people always laugh when I say there is a place called Fumbally Lane.

Maybe Gav can help me out here... I once heard that the name is a corruption of Fumble Alley. Any one else hear this?

McCready's 'Dublin street names dated and explained' (1892) says
Fumbally's (Fumbailie's) - lane (off New Street) 1789
A corruption of Bumbailiff's lane 1756

Ho ho, even better - top of the class Des.

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There are some cool old names of Dublin streets.
Phrapper lane
Dunghill lane
Gocoue's lane
Rapparee alley
Cabbage garden lane
World's end lane

lightening

Not a street or a road name, but an area, one we are all used to, so we don't bat an eyelid....

Ballsbridge!

I always liked the few streets in Coolock that were built around the first lunar landing, street names are (from what I can remember):

Apollo Way
Eagle Park
Tranquility Grove
Armstrong Walk.

boneless

I had just started to do the research Spurious but you saved me a pile of reading

Thanks!!

gurramok

There are a few odd names in Ringsend for example

Hope st
Doris st
Joy st

All beside each other, so Doris had hope and joy in the area :P

Bartronilic

Findlater Street

humberklog

gurramok wrote: »

Lover's Lane off Mount st!

I'm pretty sure the it's just Love Lane.
I used to live down there in The Northumberlands. The name Love Lane lends itself to a more seedier side than Lover's Lane.

Victor

lightening wrote: »

Apollo Way
Eagle Park
Tranquility Grove
Armstrong Walk.

All together with one more - Woodville Court.

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Victor wrote: »

All together with one more - Woodville Court.

Yeah, it's really weird.

And some absolute tosspot residents association decided to re-name two other estates around the area "Woodville" too, with massive boulders up all over the place.

I don't live in Woodville, but the stone says I do.

Gaspode

lightening wrote: »

Not a street or a road name, but an area, one we are all used to, so we don't bat an eyelid....

Ballsbridge!

I always liked the few streets in Coolock that were built around the first lunar landing, street names are (from what I can remember):

Apollo Way
Eagle Park
Tranquility Grove
Armstrong Walk.

Doesnt Aldrin get a road named after him too in the same estate: Aldrin Walk. Also, AFAIK the Michael Collins who stayed on board the Apollo gets a road after him too, but I cant remember the name of it. Probably Collins Short Straw Avenue or something!

TheScribbler

I know of a police station in England that was built on a roundabout and the 5 yards of cul-de-sac leading to the station was (and is) known as 'Lettsbey Avenue'

sambongo

Paradise Place linking Saint Mary's Place and Lower Wellington Street in Dublin 1 is a fantastic one. It's ironic in that it's a pretty grotty little laneway...

Crow92

Xavier avenue -Northstrand road Dublin

Bit sci-fi

Or

Crow's lane-Temple bar

F.R.

Cats Ladder in Dalkey off Vico Road

Gavin "shels"

Crow92 wrote: »

Xavier avenue -Northstrand road Dublin

Bit sci-fi

After St. Xavier no doubt.

GerardKeating

F.R. wrote: »

Cats Ladder in Dalkey off Vico Road

Or "Middle Third" in Killester ..

spurious

Gavin shels wrote: »

After St. Xavier no doubt.

...and the only road in Dublin beginning with an X.

I live there - woohoo - our little street got a mention in the Interweb.

admiralofthefleet

love lane just off mount street

eagle hill in blackrock

donaghs

GerardKeating wrote: »

Or "Middle Third" in Killester ..

...which is right beside another road called "Demesne".

How about "Protestant Row", just off Wexford Street, D2

CianRyan

This one's from Edinburgh, I laughed every time I walked by it. I just had to get a picture.:rolleyes:

trad

lightening wrote: »

Not a street or a road name, but an area, one we are all used to, so we don't bat an eyelid....

Ballsbridge!

I always liked the few streets in Coolock that were built around the first lunar landing, street names are (from what I can remember):

Apollo Way
Eagle Park
Tranquility Grove
Armstrong Walk.

The Mooneys lived there next door to Mahers

shionnach

step a side
kilmocow
kilmocat
kilmoboy

silurian1980

Not sure if any used to be named here in Ireland but London used to have several 'Gropecunt Lane's' which apparently were frequented by unsavoury ladies looking for 'work'.

Hard to believe it now but true!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gropecunt_Lane

Hermy

At the back of Dublin Airport there's a place called Passifyoucan.