Bull Alley Street () is a street in the medieval area of

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, Ireland.

Location

Bull Alley Street runs from

Bride Street Bride Street () is a street in the medieval area of Dublin, Ireland. Location Bride Street runs from Werburgh Street at the north to New Bride Street at the south. It runs parallel to Patrick Street. History Bride Street appears in a 1465 map ...

to the east to

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to the west, and parallel with

Bride Road Bride Road () is a street in the medieval area of Dublin, Ireland. Location Bride Road runs from Bride Street to the east to Patrick Street, Dublin, Patrick Street to the west, and parallel with Bull Alley Street. History Bride Road was previous ...

. Along the southern side of the street is St Patrick's Park.

History

This street first appears on maps of Dublin in 1680 as Bull Alley. It was part of the parish of St Nicholas Within. It is probable that the Street's name is derived from the name of a tavern or inn with a sign of a bull. In the late 1800s, the street had a large number of butchers,

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s and other jobs associated with the meat industry. In the 1900s, the

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built a housing scheme on Bull Alley Street, designed by C. J. McCarthy. It was completed in 1904, and complemented the

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scheme adjacent. The Iveagh Trust scheme consists of eight blocks of 213 apartments built between 1901 and 1905. Both schemes replaced slums which were razed for the construction. Most of these buildings are

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in style. The Play Centre built by the Trust in 1915, now

Liberties College Liberties College is an educational institution in Bull Alley Street, Dublin, Republic of Ireland. It offers further education courses, including Post Leaving Certificate courses. The college is housed in an Edwardian architecture, Edwardian buil ...

, was designed by L. A. McDonnell. The slums along the southern side of the Street were cleared to make way for St Patrick's Park, as the slums had reached right up the side of St Patrick's Cathedral.

References

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