St Clares Park Sandymount Dublin

[eadaoin]

Thoms 1922 has Potts lane in Williamstown in the Index of Streets, but no listing under Blackrock (maybe it had been demolished, but got left in the index).

Williamstown is part of Blackrock - it's on the Dublin city side, between Blackrock town and Booterstown.

Maybe Shane will be able to throw an earlier light on this!

eadaoin

edit: Peter Pearson's book "Between the Mountains and the Sea" says that Williamstown was a significant village with many houses and cottages. Many of these were cleared away in 1903/1904, when the leases expired.
(It's quite a small place now)

[shanew147]

It looks like Pott's Lane was gone by 1911 - I can't see it in any of the Blackrock DED's on the 1911 census..

like the 1922 edition that eadaoin mentioned, Pott's lane is included in the index of places in the 1914 edition of Thom's but there's no sign of it in the Blackrock street listing. (Williamstown is included in Blackrock Urban District in 1914 edition)

I'll check the 1904 and 1894 editions later on..


Shane

[nicknobbyclark]

Thank you Eadaoin & Shane

Shame- I look forward to what you may find later

Best wishes

Nick

[shanew147]

It's the same in both 1904 and 1894..

Pott's lane, Williamstown is included the county Dublin index but there's no mention of it in the street listing for Williamstown or Blackrock.

A number of the smaller side streets and cottages are not included in Thom's, especially outside the city, so I presume that's the case here.

In the areas in county Dublin the side-street junctions do not seem to be included as often as in City section. This detail can be useful as provide approx locations for smaller unlisted streets in the city area.

e.g. the listing for Grafton has numerous side street detailed, whereas no side streets are included in the section for Willliamstown. A single side street is listed in Booterstown.

Pott's lane is mentioned in county Dublin index in Thom's back to 1868 at least .


Shane

p.s. I just spotted it in the index in Thom's 1938... so maybe it still existed then ?
p.p.s. It's also listed in the 1949 & '58 editions as Pott's Lane, Blackrock