South Lotts

View of South Lotts from top floor of the Google Docks (Montevetro) building. The corner of South Dock Street Park can be seen as well as houses on South Dock, Gordon, Howard, Hope, Joy, Penrose, and Doris Streets.
Broader view of Ringsend from the Montevetro building

South Lotts is a small area to the south of the river Liffey in inner-city Dublin 4, one km east of Dublin City Centre, Ireland. It was created following the embankment of the River Liffey in 1711 between the city and Ringsend, thereby reclaiming the marshes as North and South Lotts.[1] It is at the westernmost end of Ringsend, overlapping with the Grand Canal Dock area, but is generally accepted to be within Ringsend.

The district originally referred to 51 reclaimed plots of land directly behind City Quay sold to the highest bidder in 1723. A detailed history of South Lotts is given in the 2008 book Dublin Docklands - An Urban Voyage by Turtle Bunbury, in the chapter "The Docklands - South Lotts & Poolbeg".[2]

  1. ^ "Chapters of Dublin History". Archived from the original on 20 November 2010. Retrieved 31 July 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Dublin Docklands was invoked but never defined (see the help page).