Baggot Street

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Street in central Dublin, Ireland

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::summary Street in central Dublin, Ireland ::

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photo2bMIESIAN PLAZA (BAGGOT STREET DUBLIN)-157840.jpg
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captionClockwise from top: Lower Baggot Street; Miesian Plaza; Upper Baggot Street
map_typeIreland Central Dublin
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width27 m
postal_codeD02
coordinates
direction_aNorthwest
terminus_aMerrion Street, Ely Place, Merrion Row
direction_bSoutheast
terminus_bGrand Canal, Herbert Place, Wilton Terrace
inauguration_date
known_forGeorgian architecture, Victorian architecture
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  • Lower Baggot Street () - between Merrion Row and the Grand Canal. It was called Gallows Road in the 18th century.
  • Upper Baggot Street () - south of the Grand Canal to the junction with Eastmoreland Place, where it continues as Pembroke Road.

History

Baggot Street is named after Baggotrath, a feudal manor granted to Hiberno-Norman judge Robert Bagod in the 13th century. He also built Baggotrath Castle, which was partly destroyed during the 1649 Battle of Rathmines and demolished in the early nineteenth century.

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/028_Richard_Verstegan,_Theatrum_crudelitatum_haereticorum_nostri_temporis,1587(ULiège,_R00354B).jpg" caption="[[Richard Verstegen]]'s depiction of the 1584 torture and execution of Archbishop [[Dermot O'Hurley]]. The 1579 hanging of fellow [[Irish Catholic Martyrs]] Bishop [[Patrick O'Hely]] and Friar Conn Ó Ruairc is shown in the background."] ::

Dermot O'Hurley, Archbishop of Cashel for the strictly illegal and underground Catholic Church in Ireland during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, was hanged at Gallows Road (near the modern juncture of Lower Baggot Street and Fitzwilliam Street) on 20 June 1584. The Archbishop was beatified as one of the 24 officially recognized Irish Catholic Martyrs by Pope John Paul II in 29 September 1992.

On a 1756 map of Dublin, Baggot Street is marked as The Road to Ball's-Bridge, and in 1800 Baggot Street Upper was marked as Blackrock Road.

Darkey Kelly, a madam, or kip-house keeper, and alleged female serial killer, was executed by burning on Gallows Road (modern Baggot Street) in 1761.

The street was renamed Baggot Street in 1773.

The area's status as a cultural hotbed in the mid to late 20th century led to it being referred to as "Baggotonia".

Architecture

Lower Baggot Street is distinguished by Georgian architecture, while Upper Baggot Street has mainly Victorian architecture with a few buildings of 20th-century vintage such as the former Bank of Ireland headquarters, Miesian Plaza. The Royal City of Dublin Hospital, opened in 1834, is on the east side of Upper Baggot Street, just south of the junction with Haddington Road.

Modern development such as the Miesian Plaza has been viewed by some as destructive to a previously unified Georgian streetscape. Journalist Frank MacDonald characterised the Plaza as a more violent interjection on the street than the contemporaneous ESB building on Fitzwilliam Street. On 13 July 1973, two nurses escaped from their flat in number 11 Lower Baggot Street when the back and side walls of the house collapsed following the demolition of three adjoining houses to make way for an office block. The 1978 offices built for Bord na Móna, near the Miesian Plaza, were designed by Sam Stephenson, and won the Buildings in Context award from An Taisce.

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/Baggot_Street_Upper,_Dublin.jpg" caption="Upper Baggot Street"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Patrick_Kavanagh_monument_at_Grand_Canal,_Dublin.jpg" caption="Grand Canal]] near Baggot Street bridge"] ::

People

File:Francis Bacon's birthplace at 63 Baggot Street Dublin.jpg|Francis Bacon's birthplace at 63 Baggot Street Dublin File:Schipper P.J.JPG|Pieter Jan Schippers, during World War II was registered Lower Baggot Street 118

References

Sources

References

  1. Carol and Jonathan Bardon: If Ever You Go To Dublin Town, Blackstaff Press, 1988 {{ISBN. 0-85640-397-0
  2. {{Catholic-hierarchy. bishop. bohurl. Archbishop Bl. Dermot O'Hurley. 19 January 2011
  3. M'Cready, C. T.. (1987). "Dublin street names dated and explained". Carraig.
  4. Cathy Hayes. (2011-01-12). "Was Irish witch Darkey Kelly really Ireland's first serial killer?". IrishCentral.com.
  5. Eamonn McLoughlin. (2011-01-19). "No Smoke Without Hellfire". podomatic.com.
  6. Clerkin, Paul. (2001). "Dublin street names". Gill & Macmillan.
  7. (6 March 2022). "Baggotonia, the bohemian soul of Dublin where artists flourished".
  8. Gilsenan, Alan. (March 1, 2022). "Opinion: Ever heard of Baggotonia? Why I've made a film about this forgotten part of Dublin's past".
  9. (September 11, 2023). "The Ghosts of Baggotonia - Dublin's bohemian quarter revisited". [[RTE.ie]].
  10. Lynch, Brendan. (2011). "Prodigals and Geniuses: The Writers and Artists of Dublin's Baggotonia.". [[The Liffey Press]].
  11. "M. Donnelly, D.D: Short Histories of Dublin Parishes, part 2.".
  12. (22 February 2014). "If Ever You Go to Dublin".

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