Contact Sarah Gearty at [email protected] if you wish to cite this document in a publication IRISH HISTORIC TOWNS ATLAS Galway Draft of gazetteer of topographical information by Jacinta Prunty and Paul Walsh 30 November 2010 Part funded by the Heritage Council 2010 Research Grant Scheme The Irish Historic Towns Atlas is a Royal Irish Academy research project (www.ihta.ie) 1 Contact Sarah Gearty at [email protected] if you wish to cite this document in a publication Introduction to draft This gazetteer is a draft and was compiled as part of work in progress on the Irish Historic Towns Atlas (IHTA) of Galway city. Many of the references were collected and added from February to November 2010 as part of a research programme funded by the Heritage Council 2010 grant scheme. The ongoing Galway project is guided by authors Jacinta Prunty and Paul Walsh, who work in conjunction with the editorial board and staff of the IHTA, Royal Irish Academy. Thanks are due to the research team that worked with the authors in the production of this draft gazetteer: Anne Rosenbusch, Adrian Kirwin, Siobhan Murphy. Note on draft The following topographical information is categorised into eleven thematic sections (10 Streets, 11 Religion, 12 Defence, 13 Administration, 14 Primary Production, 15 Manufacturing, 16 Trades and Services, 17 Transport, 18 Utilities, 19 Health, 20 Education, 21 Entertainment, memorials and societies), which will be included in the published IHTA, Galway. References are derived directly from various primary sources (listed with their abbreviations in the bibliography) and relate to the built-up area of Galway at each of the dates referred to up to 1900. These are listed chronologically under the relevant feature entry. The entries under each heading, except for Streets, are grouped thematically: for example, all mills in section 15 Manufacturing are listed together. Street names are listed in alphabetical order. The first entry for each street gives its present-day name, followed by its first identifiable appearance, named or unnamed, in a map or other record and the various names subsequently applied to it in chronological order of occurrence. Users are reminded that this is work in progress, and, in essence, is a distillation of references that have been associated with particular features. Further research and editorial work is required before bringing the IHTA, Galway to publication. As a result, some citations have yet to be linked with the relevant feature and locations have yet to be clarified. Likewise, it should be noted that the list of abbreviations is a draft bibliography and is subject to continuous editing. 2 Contact Sarah Gearty at [email protected] if you wish to cite this document in a publication 10. Streets Abbey Lane [links Wood Quay with St. Francis Street] See St Anthony’s Place. Abbeygate Street [from William Street / Shop Street to Merchants Road] Lower [north] Glovers Streete 1625 (Plot). Platea coriariorum, vulgo Skiners aut glovers streete c. 1665 (Pictorial map, Elenchus, No. 59) Skinner’s-street 1731 (Hardiman, 1820, 255). Abby Street post 1755 (Blake, 21). Abbey Gate Street 1784 (RD 361/221/242715), 1818 (Logan). Lower Abbey Gate Street 1837 (GTCM 16.2.1837). Upper Abbeygate Street 1839 (OS). Lower Abbey Gate Street 1841 (GTCM 22.7.1841). Abbeygate Street Lower 1846 (Slater). Lower Abbeygate Street c. 1855; Abbeygate-st. Lower 1855 (Val. 2). Lower Abbey Gate Street 1872 (OS sheet 24). Abbeygate Street Lower 1881 (Slater). Lower Abbey Gate Street 1893 (OS). Lower Abbeygate Street 1900 (GTCM 4.1.1900). Sráid an Geata 1944 (OS). Abbeygate Street Lower 1992 (G7, OS), c. 2000 (OS). Abbeygate Street Abbey Gate Street 1818 (Logan). Upper Abbeygate Lower [mid.] Street 1839 (OS). Lower Abbey Gate Street c. 1855 (Val. 2). Lower Abbey Gate Street 1872 (OS). Lower Abbey Gate Street 1893 (OS). Sráid an Geata 1944 (OS). Abbeygate Street Lower c. 2000 (OS). Abbeygate Street P. Luti, Pludd streete c. 1665 (Pictorial map, Elenchus, Lower [south] No. 62). Queen Street 1818 (Logan). Upper Abbeygate Street 1839 (OS). Unnamed c. 1855 (Val. 2). Lower Abbey Gate Street 1872 (OS). Unnamed 1893 (OS). Sráid an Geata 1944 (OS). Abbeygate Street Lower c. 2000 (OS). Abbeygate Street [from Mary Street/ Bowling Green to William Street/ Upper Shop Street] Unnamed 1583 (Gooche). ‘the street from Blake’s Stone to the little gate’ 1602 (Blake 1905, 1). Unnamed c. 1608 (Fenn), 1610 (Speed). Little Gate Streete 1625 (Plot), c. 1665 (Pictorial map: Elenchus, No. 58). Litlegate Street 1667–8 (Irish Record Commission, III, Lands involved in Acts of Settlement and Explanation, 1666–84), appendix to Report XV (Dublin, 1825, 91, 109, 138). Little Gate Street 1734 (RD 76/482/55505). Abby Street post 1755 (Blake, 21). Abbey Gate Street 1818 (Logan). Abbey-gate-street 1820 (Hardiman, 1820, 174; Ó Cuileáin 1975, 42). Lower Abbeygate Street 1839 (OS). Abbey Gate Street Upper 1851 (GTCM 3.1.1851). Upper Abbeygate Street c. 1855; Abbeygate-st. Upper 1855 (Val. 2). Abbeygate Street Upper 1856 (Slater). Upper Abbeygate Street 1872 (OS sheets 18, 24). Abbeygate Street Upper 1881 (Slater). Upper Abby-gate Street 1887 (GTCM 6.10.1887). Upper Abbey Gate Street 1893 (OS). 3 Contact Sarah Gearty at [email protected] if you wish to cite this document in a publication Abbeygate Street Upper 1894 (Slater). Upper Abbeygate Street 1900 (GTCM 4.1.1900). Sráid an Sudairi 1944 (OS). Abbeygate Street Upper 1992 (G7, OS), c. 2000 (OS). Abbeygate Street [from Whitehall / St. Augustine Street to Merchants Lower [mid./south] Road] Unnamed 1583 (Gooche), c. 1608 (Fenn), 1610 (Speed). Griffin’s Streete 1625 (Plot). Abby Street post 1755 (Blake, 21). Abbey Gate Street 1784 (RD 361/221/242715). Lower Abbey Gate Street 1837 (GTCM 16.2.1837). Lower Abbey Gate Street 1841 (GTCM 22.7.1841). Abbeygate Street Lower 1846 (Slater). Abbeygate-st. Lower 1855 (Val. 2). Abbeygate Street Lower 1881 (Slater). Abby-gate Street 1684 (O’Flaherty, 34). Abbey Street 1767 (RD 257/479/169433). Abbeygate Street 1781 (Eyre doc 1, 71). Abbeygate Street 1788 (Eyre doc 1, 72). Abbey Gatestreet 1788 (RD 594/95/401883). Abbeygate Street 1792 (CJ 19.1.1792), 1796 (MacLysaght, 1944, 134). Abbeygate Street 1804 (Eyre doc 2, 154). Abby Gate Street ‘… parcel of ground containing in front to Shop St. 37 including half the wall of a house … to Abby Gate St. …’ 1810 (RD 619/562/425151). Abbey Street 1817 (CJ 6.1.1817). Abbeygate Street 1817 (Eyre doc 2, 178), 1823 (CJ 20.1.1823). Abbeygate Street 1824 (Pigot), Abbeygate- street 1825 (CJ 10.1.1825). Abbeygate Street 1825 (Eyre doc 3, 78), 1828 (GWA 30.8.1828), 1829 (GWA 3.1.1829), 1833 (Eyre doc 3, 83). Abbeygate street 1836 (GTCM 14.7.1836). Abbeygate Street 1838 (GTCM 15.3.1838). Abbey Gate Street 1839 (GTCM 26.12.1839). Abbeygate Street 1842 (GTCM 20.10.1842). Abbey Gate Street 1843 (GTCM 2.11.1843). Abbey Gate Street 1844 (GTCM 11.4.1844). ‘… the old house, garden and plot in Abbey Gate Street called Frenchs plot to erect a market on.’ 1844 (GTCM 18.4.1844). Abbey Gate Street 1845 (GTCM 21.10.1845). Abbeygate Street 1846 (Slater). Abbeygate Street 1851 (GTCM 7.11.1851), 1852 (Eyre doc 3, 92), Abbeygate Street 1852 (Wakeman). Abbygate Street ‘… called the attention of the Board to the continuation of Market Street between Abbygate Street and the street newly opened between Williams Gate and Newtownsmith which he thought could be easily effected.’ 1852 (GTCM 16.9.1852). ‘That Abbygate Street be continued thro Mr Stephens House to the New Docks the street from the Square to Back Street by the Castle Barracks be opened from the West Bridge to Mainguard Street widened a new street from William Street to the Docks opposite the a continuation of Market Street thro the House lately 4 Contact Sarah Gearty at [email protected] if you wish to cite this document in a publication occupied by John Blakeny to the new street leading from Williams Gate to the Abby Convent a continuation of Mary Street to the Bowling Green an open from the end of Dominick Street to the Sea Road also from the Bank of Ireland thro the thatched Houses adjoining Mr. Stokes house in Eyre Square thro the hailors [?] forge adjoining Mr Baths premises leading to Corrib Street …’ 1852 (GTCM 5.11.1852). Abbygate Street 1853 (GTCM 25.5.1853). Abbeygate Street 1856 (Slater). Abbeygate Street 1862 (GTCM 13.11.1862). Abbeygate Street 1863 (GTCM 10.9.1863). Abby Gate Street 1866 (GTCM 11.1.1866). Abbygate Street 1866 (GTCM 13.9.1866). Abbey Gate Street 1870 (GTCM 25.1.1870). Lower Abbey Gate Street 1872 (OS). Abbeygate Street 1881 (Slater). Abbeygate Street 1883 (GTCM 30.8.1883). Abbeygate street 1884 (GTCM 2.10.1884). Abbeygate Street 1886 (GTCM 2.12.1886). Abbeygate Street 1890 (GTCM 28.10.1890). Abbeygate Street 1894 (Slater). Abbeygate Street 1899 (GTCM 5.10.1899). Abbeygate Street 1902 (Bayne). High Street 1747 (Fortifications plan). Abbeygate Street 1781 (Eyre doc 1, 71). Abbey gate St. (upper and lower) 1813 (Hardiman, 1820, 284). Abbey Gate Street 1818 (Logan). Also known as Sráid na bPánannaí on account of there been two pawn shops in this street and Na dTighthe Saora as there were formerly some shops in the street, which sold expensive clothes (Ó Máille, 1946, 45). Shop St No 8, ‘there is a small yard … with gateway entrance to it from Lower Abbeygate Street. Mr Lynch holds also some rooms over Martin Cahill’s house in Abbeygate Street to which he enters from the Castle. 1845 (Val. 1, 2747).