More challenges to navigating around dublin

Visitors (and even locals) often find it hard to navigate around Dublin. One of the problems the strange custom in Dublin of assigning totally different names to different sections of the same road.  I blogged before about some of the more confusing examples of this. Another problem is the fact that the council regularly decide to change the name of a street.

Here are a few examples:

1. Amiens Street was The Strand 
2. Ardee Street was Crooked Staff 
3. Aughrim Street was part of Blackhorse Lane 
4. Back Lane was Rochel Street 
5. Balfe Lane was Pitt Street 
6. Belmont Avenue was Coldblow Lane 
7. Benburb Street was Barrack Street 
8. Bishop Street was Great Boater Lane 
9. Blackhall Place was The Gravel Walk 
10. Bow Lane was Elbow Lane 
11. Bow Street was Lough Buoy 
12. Brabazon Street was Cuckold's Row 
13. Bridgefoot Street was Dirty Lane 
14. Brookefield Avenue was Watery Lane 
15. Brookefield Road was Cutthroat Lane 
16. Camden Street was St. Kevin's Port 
17. Cathel Brugha Street was Gregg Lane 
18. Cathedral Lane was Cabbage Garden Lane 
19. Chancery Place was Mass Lane 
20. Christchurch Place was Skinners' Row 
21. Clonliffe Road was Fortick Road 
22. Collage Green was Hoggen Green 
23. Constitution Hill was Glasmunogue 
24. Dame Street was Tengmoutli Street 
25. Dean Street was Cross Poddle 
26. Digges Lane was Goat Alley 
27. Dorset Street was Drumcondra Lane 
28. Engine Alley was Indian Alley 
29. Essex Street was Orange Street and earlier it was Smock Alley 
30. Exchange Street Lower was The Blind Quay 
31. Exchequer Street was Chequer Street 
32. Foley Street was Montgomery Street and earlier it was World's End Lane 
33. Glover's Alley was Rapparee Alley 
34. Green Street was Abbey Green 
35. Haddington Road was Cottage Terrace 
36. Hammond Lane was Hangman's Lane 
37. Harrington Street was Whitworth Street 
38. High Street was Main Street 
39. Hill Street was Lower Temple Street 
40. Infirmary Road was Aberdeen Street 
41. Island Street was Dunghill Lane 
42. Lansdowne Road was Watery Lane 
43. Lincoln Lane was Pudding Lane 
44. Lincoln Place was Park Street and earlier it was St. Patrick's Well Lane 
45. Little Green Street was Bradogue Lane 
46. Little Ship Street was Pole Mill Street 
47. Lower Baggot Street was Gallows Road 
48. Lower Gardiner Street was The Old Rope Walk 
49. Mary's Lane was Broad Street 
50. Mercer Street was French Street 
51. Mespil Road was Gibbet Meadow 
52. North Brunswick Street was Channel Row 
53. North Lotts was Newfoundland 
54. O'Connell Street was Sackville Street 
55. Upper O'Connell Street was Drogheda Street 
56. Old Kilmainham was Murdering Lane 
57. Oliver Bond Street was Mullinahack 
58. Parnell Square was Rutland Square 
59. Parnell Street was Great Britain Street 
60. Pearse Street was Great Brunswick Street 
61. Pimlico was Donour Street 
62. Prussia Street was Cabragh Lane 
63. Railway Street was Upper Tyrone Street and earlier it was a Part of Mecklenburgh Street (see Waterford St.) 
64. Sackville Place was Tucker's Row 
65. Sean McDermott Street was Gloucster Street and earlier it was Great Martin's Lane 
66. Shelbourne Road was Artichoke Road 
67. St. Andrew's Street was Hog Hill & earlier it was Hoggen Hill 
68. St. Michael's Lane was Macgillamocholmog's Street 
69. St. Stephens's Green North was Beaux Walk
70. St. Stephen's Green South was Leeson's Walk 
71. St. Stephen's Green East was Monk's Walk 
72. St. Stephen's Green West was French Walk
73. Talbot Street was Cope Street North 
74. Townsend Street was Lazy Hill and earlier it was Lazar's Hill 
75. Usher's Lane was Dog And Duck Yard 
76. Waterford Street was Lower Tyrone Street and earlier it was Part of Mecklenburg Street (see Railway Street) 
77. Wellington Street was Paradise Row 
78. Wolfe Tone Street was Stafford Street

This is not a complete list of street name changes, but just be careful if you have an older map.