Sherrard Street, Dublin
 Sherrard Street Upper looking towards Gardiner Street | |
Interactive map of Sherrard Street | |
| Native name | Sráid Sherrard (Irish) |
|---|---|
Postal code | D01 |
| Coordinates | 53°21′32″N 6°15′35″W / 53.3589°N 6.25965°W |
| west end | Gardiner Street |
Major junctions | North Circular Road |
| north end | Portland Place |
| Construction | |
Construction start | 1795 |
Sherrard Street (Irish: Sráid Sherrard)[1] is a street on the northside of Dublin, Ireland. The street is divided in Sherrard Street Lower running from Portland Place to the North Circular Road, and Sherrard Street Upper running from the North Circular Road to Gardiner Street.[2]
History
Sherrard Street is named for Thomas Sherrard, surveyor and secretary to the Wide Streets Commission.[3] He was one of a number of his family involved in this work as surveyors, clerks, and drawing up maps.[4] The street first appears on maps in 1795,[3] and was developed as part of the Gardiner estate.
The street was developed from the late 1700s onwards, with many of the houses on Sherrard Street Lower dating from the 1800s onwards with terraces with Greek Revival ornamentation[5][6] which all conform to strict guidelines on plot ratios and parapet heights.[7] In the 1860s, the street was home to many professionals and merchants.[8] Sherrard Street Upper was developed later, with red brick terraced houses dating from the 1880s, with an early Victorian row surviving.[2][6]
Rawlton House on Sherrard Street Lower dates from 1899 and was built as a boys school. It is a symmetrical, four-bay, Victorian parish school designed by W.M. Mitchell, and replaced earlier schools on Portland Street and on the grounds of St George's Church locally. It was later converted for light industrial use.[9] The building was subject to arson in January 2023 when disinformation spread on social media that the school was to be redeveloped as housing for refugees or international protection applicants.[10]
The former music venue, the SFX Hall, stood on Sherrard Street Upper. Built it 1957, replacing an earlier theatre, the venue acted as the national concert hall, a home to the RTÉ Symphony Orchestra and music venue. It was demolished in 2006.[11]
In the 2020s, the street has become known as an illegal dumping black spot, exasperated by the use of bags for rubbish collection which are attacked by animals.[12]
Notable residents
- Rev. James Wills, poet and father of William Gorman Wills, lived at number 3 Sherrard Street Lower.[13]
References
- ↑ "Sráid Sherrard Uachtarach". Sráid Ainm. Retrieved 14 June 2026.
- 1 2 "26 Sherrard Street Upper, Dublin 1, DUBLIN". Buildings of Ireland. Retrieved 14 June 2026.
- 1 2 McCready, C.T. (1892). Dublin Street Names: Dated and Explained. Dublin: Carraig Books. p. 117. ISBN 1850680000.
{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help) - ↑ Clerkin, Paul (2001). Dublin Street Names. Dublin: Gill & MacMillan. p. 166. ISBN 0717132048.
- ↑ "1 Sherrard Street Lower, North Circular Road, Dublin, DUBLIN". Buildings of Ireland. Retrieved 14 June 2026.
- 1 2 Casey, Christine (2005). Dublin: the city within the Grand and Royal Canals and the Circular Road with the Phoenix Park. New Haven, Conn. ; London: Yale University Press. p. 205. ISBN 9780300109238.
- ↑ "3 Sherrard Street Lower, Dublin, DUBLIN". Buildings of Ireland. Retrieved 14 June 2026.
- ↑ "Sherrard-street, Lower - Dublin Street Directory 1862". www.libraryireland.com. Retrieved 14 June 2026.
- ↑ "Rawlton House, Sherrard Street Lower, Dublin 1, DUBLIN". Buildings of Ireland. Retrieved 14 June 2026.
- ↑ Conneely, Ailbhe (30 January 2023). "Fire at vacant building in Dublin under investigation". RTÉ News. Retrieved 14 June 2026.
- ↑ Crawley, Peter (12 January 2006). "Mystery of the vanishing venues". The Irish Times. Retrieved 14 June 2026.
- ↑ McConnell, Daniel (6 August 2022). "Daniel McConnell: My dear old Dublin is fast becoming a dirty old town". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 14 June 2026.
- ↑ Carm, Augustine Dillon Cosgrave, O. (1969). "North Dublin City". Dublin Historical Record. 23 (1): 3–22. ISSN 0012-6861. Retrieved 14 June 2026.
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