WILLIAM'S GUIDE TO THE STREETS OF DUBLIN

JERVIS STREET

According to Wikipedia Jervis Street is a street in Dublin in the Republic of Ireland that runs from Parnell Street in the north to Ormond Quay Lower in the south. It is crossed by Mary Street, Abbey Street Upper, and Strand Street Great. Until today I would have agreed with with this description but according to my photographs there is a short street named Swifts Row between the end of Jervis Street and Ormond Quay. According to Google Maps Jervis meets Swifts Row at the Stand Street junction

The street is part of the area developed by Humphrey Jervis after 1674 and named after him.

In 1913, Jervis Street was one of the streets photographed by John Cooke, Honorary Treasurer of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), for presentation to the Dublin Housing Inquiry into the conditions of housing of the working classes of Dublin.

It was once the location of the Jervis Street Hospital which has since become the Jervis Shopping Centre which opened in 1996.

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