Cuffe Street
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| Native name | Sráid Mac Dhuibh (Irish) |
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| Namesake | James Cuffe MP |
| Location | Dublin, Ireland |
| Postal code | D02 |
| Coordinates | 53°20′16″N 6°16′00″W / 53.3376507°N 6.26666°W / 53.3376507; -6.26666 |
| east end | Kevin Street Lower, Camden Street |
| west end | St Stephen's Green |
Cuffe Street (Irish: Sráid Mac Dhuibh or Sráid Cuffe)[1] is a street in Dublin, Ireland which runs from St Stephen's Green at the eastern end to Kevin Street Lower at the western end.
The street is intersected by Mercer Street and Montague Court.
History
Cuffe Street was named after James Cuffe, and first appears on maps in 1728. Buildings are shown along the north side of the street on Herman Moll's map of 1714.[2] On John Rocque's map of Dublin in 1756, it is Great Cuffe Street.[3][4] The residential buildings built in the early 1700s were mostly gable-fronted houses, so-called 'Dutch Billys', which were largely modified in the later Georgian and Victorian periods.[5] Most of these buildings were demolished as part of the Dublin Corporation's road-widening scheme from the 1960s through to the 1980s when ultimately the dual carriageway and tree-lined present appearance came to be.[3]
Bricklayers' Hall
49 Cuffe Street for a period housed the headquarters of the Bricklayers' and Stonecutters' Guild, a successor body to one of the original Guilds of the City of Dublin. The building was originally constructed as the St Peter's Parish Savings Bank until its failure in the 1840s[6][7] but the narrow building was later widened with an extra bay and separate door. It was demolished as part of the Dublin Corporation road widening scheme in 1985 which resulted in a settlement of £87,857. An ensuing legal action resulted in a court case and it was ultimately decided that the façade of the building would be saved and rebuilt along the new street line, with the money paid from the Corporation increasing to £244,414 for the strip of land they needed for the newly widened road. The façade was never reassembled, and Dublin City Council pursued reimbursement in 1996 with a repayment of £159,000 ultimately ordered by the High Court.[8]
As of 2021, the numbered remaining elements of the Bricklayers' Hall are said to be held in storage by Dublin City Council.[citation needed]
Winter Garden Palace
The corner of Cuffe Street and St Stephen's Green was the site of the Winter Garden Palace for over 200 years. From early reports in 1866, it was referred to as the Winter Garden Gin Palace. During the 1880s, it was a meeting place of the Fenian group, the Invincibles. It was also one of the sites occupied by the Irish Volunteers and Irish Citizen Army during the events of the Easter Rising in 1916.[9] The building was subject to the compulsory purchase order in 1966, for the planned road widening. It lay empty and derelict before it was finally demolished in 1975.[10] Alongside the Winter Garden Palace, the residential and retail area bounded by Cuffe Street, Cuffe Lane and St Stephen's Green was bought up by developers MEPC plc and eventually demolished.[citation needed]
Ardilaun Centre
MEPC later developed an office complex on the site from 1979–81 that was initially rented by the government Department of Posts and Telegraphs for Telecom Éireann. The development was named the Ardilaun Centre for Arthur Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun.[11][12] The building was designed by architects Costello, Murray and Beaumont and constructed by Sisk Group at a cost of £12.5 million.[13][14]
Notable residents
- James Bermingham[15] - lived at 26 Cuffe Street
- Warden Flood
- Richard O'Carroll - lived at 49 Cuffe Street. O'Carroll Villas building on the street is named in his honour.
- Eliza H. Trotter[16] - lived at 30 Cuffe Street
- Leonard McNally - lived for a period at 20 Cuffe Street
See also
External links
- Images of Cuffe Street over time from the RTE archives [1]
References
- ^ "Cuffe Street". Logainm. Archived from the original on 31 October 2015. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
- ^ M'Cready, C. T. (1987). Dublin street names dated and explained. Blackrock, Co. Dublin: Carraig. p. 28. ISBN 1850680000.
- ^ a b Clerkin, Paul (2001). Dublin street names. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan. p. 49. ISBN 0717132048.
- ^ "113 M. McNally, Fuel Depot, Cuffe Street, 1963". flickr.com. 29 October 2021. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
- ^ "History, Dublin Civic Trust". www.dublincivictrust.ie. Archived from the original on 14 November 2017. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
- ^ "Failure Of The St Peter's Savings Bank, Dublin - Hansard - UK Parliament". localhost. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
- ^ Porter, W. H. (1848). "Savings Banks: Their Defects, the Remedy ...: With Some Account of the Failure of St. Peter's Parish Savings Bank, Dublin; Its Present and Past Position and History". Hodges. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
- ^ "1812 – Bricklayers Hall, Cuffe St., Dublin". Archiseek - Irish Architecture. 7 May 2012. Archived from the original on 25 February 2021. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
- ^ Archives, RTÉ (5 July 2012). "RTÉ Archives". stillslibrary.rte.ie. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
- ^ "The Winter Garden Palace on St. Stephen's Green". Come Here To Me!. 11 October 2017. Archived from the original on 3 March 2021. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
- ^ McDonald, Frank (1985). The destruction of Dublin. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan. pp. 259–260. ISBN 0-7171-1386-8. OCLC 60079186. Archived from the original on 24 September 2021. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
- ^ "paddi : document details". paddi.net. Retrieved 29 August 2023.
- ^ Lincoln, Colm (1992). Dublin as a Work of Art. O'Brien Press. ISBN 9780862783136. Retrieved 29 August 2023.
- ^ "Ardilaun Centre" (PDF). Retrieved 29 August 2023.
- ^ Thoms Directory 1895
- ^ "Eliza H. Trotter, Portrait and Subject Painter – Irish Artists". libraryireland.com. Archived from the original on 14 September 2016. Retrieved 20 October 2018.