Stoneybatter
Looking north towards Manor Street
The derivation of the name Stoneybatter is interesting;
In the second century a 'Royal road', one of the five great roads of Ireland, stretched from Tara in Meath to Glendalough in Wicklow, crossing the river Liffey at the Ford of the Hurdles (near the present-day Liam Mellows Bridge).
Liam Mellows Bridge
Liam Mellows Bridge with the Joyce Bridge in the background
Looking north towards the Liam Mellows Bridge & Church St. beyond
Since this road was paved, which was a rarity at the time, it was known in Irish as Bothar-na-gCloch, or 'Road of the Stones'.
Walsh’s, on the corner of North Brunswick Street…back in happier times with the doors open.
Manor Street, with the Glimmerman (formally Lysters) - with its elaborate High Victorian facade, attributed to J. J. O’Callaghan
Georgian terrace on Manor St. - in the right is 83 Manor St., once the home of Austin Clarke, the celebrated Irish poet, now the home and workshop of luthier James Beatley
The corner of Manor St. & Manor Place
This subsequently changed over time, with the influence of the English, to become Stoney-Bothar, itself further corrupted to 'Stoneybatter'.
Kavanagh’s, by George L. O’Connor, 1901
Looking south on Manor Street