THORNCASTLE STREET

30/08/2023

I included a photograph of Cambridge Road as seen from Thorncastle Street.

Thorncastle Street and adjacent Bridge Street were used in the 1999 film Agnes Browne as the location for the market stall and church scenes beside the flat blocks. Ringsend has also been a location for a number of other notable films including In The Name Of The Father, Educating Rita (Rita's home was in Ringsend) and The General. Ringsend is served by St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, on Thorncastle Street, building began in 1858 and it was opened in 1859 by Archbishop Cullen, the parish was constituted in 1905 from Sandymount.

Whelan House is a housing complex on Thorncastle Street, Ringsend, backing on to the river Dodder. Built in the 1930s, it was named in memory of Patrick Whelan (1893–1916), who was active in the Ringsend branch of the Gaelic League and a Volunteer under the command of Éamon de Valera during the Easter Rising. He was killed in crossfire during the battle of Mount Street Bridge. I came across an account online claiming that Thorncastle Street was where Whelan was born but that is not true as it is most likely that his family lived in Pembroke Cottages.

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