History Clanbrassil Street

19th-century houses on east side of lower clanbrassil st.

from earliest times street formed part of slige chualann, ran south settlement @ Áth cliath. took name cualu, district in dublin situated , lay between mouths of liffey , avoca (in county wicklow).

in 1868, new street opened connect harold s cross lower clanbrassil street. lord mayor, aldermen , frederick stokes, had purchased land , led project, attended opening. street called kingsland street, name never used , became upper clanbrassil street.

between 1886 , 1892, 128 houses built off clanbrassil st. (on daniel st. , harty place) dublin artisans dwelling company industrial , working classes.

lower clanbrassil st. known part of little jerusalem because in first half of 20th century @ heart of jewish community in ireland. first jews fleeing conditions in lithuania (then part of russian empire) arrived in 1870s , settled off lower clanbrassil st. in following decades many of them settled along south circular road, both sides of leonard s corner, , in side-streets off it.