South Lotts is a small area to the south of the river Liffey

River Liffey

The Liffey is a river in Ireland, which flows through the centre of Dublin. Its major tributaries include the River Dodder, the River Poddle and the River Camac. The river supplies much of Dublin's water, and a range of recreational opportunities.-Name:The river was previously named An Ruirthech,...

 in Dublin 4

Dublin 4

Dublin 4 is a postal district of Dublin, Ireland including the suburbs of Sandymount, Ballsbridge, Donnybrook, Ringsend and Irishtown on the South side of Dublin....

, 1 km east of Dublin City Centre, Ireland

Republic of Ireland

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. It was created following the embankment of the River Liffey in 1711 between the city and Ringsend, thereby reclaiming the North and South Lotts . It is at the West end of Ringsend

Ringsend

Ringsend is a southside inner suburb of Dublin, the capital of Ireland. It is located on the south bank of the River Liffey, about two kilometres east of the city centre, and is the southern terminus of the East Link Toll Bridge....

 but is now generally accepted to be within Ringsend

Boundaries of district

It is bordered to the north by Ringsend Road, to the west by Barrow Street, to the east by South Lotts Road and to the south by Grand Canal Street.

The South Lotts takes its name from when the land was reclaimed and sold at auction to the highest bidder.

Included in South Lotts are

• South Lotts Road
• Doris Street
  Doris Street
  Doris Street in Ringsend in Dublin 4 in Ireland was named after William Doris, an Irish Member of Parliament and Chief Whip of the Irish Parliamentary Party ....
  
  
• Gerald Street
• Gordon Street
• Hastings Street
• Hope Street,
• Howard Street
• Joy Street
• Ormeau Street
• Penrose Street
• Somerset Street
• South Dock Place
• South Dock Street

Buildings

The South Lotts originally included the lands south of Gordon Street which has been developed by an Irish property developer (now in receivership) into an area called The Gasworks. The Gasworks is the current location of Google

Google

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's European headquarters as well as a flat complex.

The Alliance building is a converted gasometer which was developed into a block of apartments. The building was owned by Liam Carroll

Liam Carroll

Liam Carroll is a property developer in Ireland whose Zoe Developments group became well known during the Celtic Tiger years of 1990s and 2000s for residential and commercial property construction projects. Carroll is known in business circles for his legendary thriftiness and is considered a...

's Zoe Developments originally, but the company went into receivership. Forty of the apartments were sold but none of those who paid deposits went on to sign contracts and many left as they realised the apartments were overpriced. Zoe Developments applied for and received permission from Dublin City Council

Dublin City Council

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 to convert the building into a hotel, but it shortly turned out that a combination of too many hotel rooms and price cutting meant there was no market for that either.

South Lotts is also home to the Shelbourne Park

Shelbourne Park

Shelbourne Park is a greyhound racing stadium in the south Dublin inner city suburb of Ringsend.The stadium also played host to the home matches of Shelbourne FC, who play in the League of Ireland, from 1913/14 up until 1948/49. The first match was a 1-1 draw against Bohemians and their last match...

 Greyhound Stadium, located on South Lotts Road. Racing on Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday nights.

Also within the area there is a small park, known locally as "The Swings". The park consists a small playground, a netted Astroturf

AstroTurf

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 Football

Football

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/Basketball

Basketball

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 court and a small grassy area.

South Lotts is an area of single and double storey terraced houses which were built between 1890 and 1910 to house the dockers working locally. The area was developed by James Beckett between 1890 and 1910 The two storied dwellings are typically Red Bricked, two up, two down terraced houses with a small back yard. They are fronted directly onto the footpath.

The two up two down houses were built in the Belfast

Belfast

Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly...

 syle with two rooms upstairs and two rooms downstairs. The houses have two upstairs windows and a single larger window downstairs overlooking the street. The lavatory was built within the back yard when built at first. The facades are red bricked with blonde bricks around the door and windows.

Some of the houses in the area were built without the blonde bricks, however, decoration is with granite support plints above the windows and doors. Each house contains a large fireplace in the front room downstairs and a smaller cast iron fireplace in the upstairs front and back rooms. Between the houses are older reclaimed bricks. Those bricks are believed to have been reclaimed from houses knocked down elsewhere in Dublin.

The single storied houses are at the west end of South Lotts.

A number of commercial business operate in the South Lotts area including Ringsend's post office, coffee shops, a sandwich bar, beauty salon, dry cleaners and accountant's.

Bin Collection is Monday and recycling is collected every two weeks on Tuesday. Street Parking is Pay-and-Display or resident permit only.

Films

The area has been used as location in Films including In The Name Of The Father, Educating Rita

Educating Rita

Educating Rita is a stage comedy by British playwright Willy Russell. It is a play for two actors set entirely in the office of an Open University lecturer....

 and The General

The General

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. Advertising agencies have filmed and photographed in the area for various commercials such as Eircom

Eircom

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 and Vodafone

Vodafone

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.