590 North Circular Road

[daisymershum]

Hi,

Just researching my grandfather Michael Mervyn and his involvement in the 1916 Rising. I had thought he was living at 54 Bayview Avenue when he participated in Easter Week.

But I came across the following last night and it has him down as living at '590 North Circular Road', aged 19:

http://books.google.ie/books?ei=p_5bTeDcDsq2hQeO7OXVDQ&ct=result&id=dbQ0AQAAIAAJ&dq=mervyn+590+n.+circular+road&q=mervyn#search_anchor

Would it be possible that he gave a fake address or that he was actually living there? In the 1911 Census, he is living with his mother and two brothers in North Great Georges Street.

What added to the mystery about 590 North Circular Road was the following:

http://www.historyireland.com/volumes/volume8/issue2/letters/?id=113487

'590 North Circular Road

Sir,—I am searching for historical or social information about howsingle pregnant girls were helped in giving birth in Dublin around thebeginning of the twentieth century. In particular I have evidence of anumber of births in 1916 at 590 North Circular Road. The person givenas present at the births was a Frances Moran. Dr Barnado’s, ChristChurch Place, informs me that quite a number of people who came to themlooking for their birth-parents give 590 NCR as their place of birth.Before 1916 the address of the house was 30 Richmond Place. It is stillstanding near the corner of Summerhill and the NCR and is believed tobe two hundred years old. On the NCR there were many nursing homes, butin contrast to number 590 they were registered as such. Local knowledgeis very sparse, but I have been informed that the house was usedexclusively for girls from the country and certainly not for girls fromDublin. It was run by a midwife I am told. In particular I aminterested in the question how and by whom and for how long this‘private’ home was run.

CHARLES GRADY'

So any ideas if 590 NCR was his correct address?

Cheers,
Dave (DaisyMershum)

[LH]

Hi

1911 Census shows an Orphanage on North Circular Road but it seems to have been a Church of Ireland Orphanage.  See
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Dublin/Glasnevin/Female_Orphan_School__Circular_Road_North/13779/

Cheers

[shanew147]

The system of numbers on North Circular Rd must have changed at some point as there's no number 590 in earlier years. In 1914 and earlier listings each section of the Road had its own separate range of numbers, and sometimes within this system individual terraces also had their own separate numbers.

In 1927 there is a 590 and it is listed as Mrs. Moran. It's located not far from the NCR junctions with Summer St North and Rutland Place, which are adjacent to Summerhill.

p.s. I believe that section of the North Circular Rd would originally have been named Richmond place.


Shane

[daisymershum]

Thanks for the replies guys.

From the note about pregnancies from Charles Grady, it seems '590 NCR' was 30 Richmond Place.

Here it is in the 1911 Census: http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Dublin/Mountjoy/Richmond_Place/30316/

Could be likely that he was a boarder there?

[shanew147]

That looks like a normal house to me, and there is lodger there in 1911, so Michael  could have been one.  Robt. Nelson is still listed at the address in Thom's 1914.

The houses along that stretch of road look like they could be the original buildings from that time. See google street view.

590 is on the section just to the east of Dublin Electrical Wholesale - they are 580, and it's all even numbers on that side.


Shane

[eadaoin]

Mrs Moran is in 590 in 1922

eadaoin

[Sonichic]

Hi have you found anymore information on this. I believe my grandfather lived at this address in 1916/17