[2] Croke Park, the headquarters of the Gaelic Athletic Association, is a prominent local landmark in the area where Ballybough meets Drumcondra.

[3] A village of mud house was established on the island that lay off the sloblands along the estuary of the Liffey, and is thought to have been accessible by foot at low tide.

[4] The Irish Builder described Mud Island as being "between the Royal Canal and the River Tolka on the north and sound and being bounded east and west by the North Strand and Ballybough Road; but we think we may with some degree of truth affirm it received its name from its low marsh situation, and from being at one time at no distant date under the influence of the sea.

[8] Reports of robbery and the apprehension of smugglers in the area can be found in contemporary newspapers as well: On Sunday, 17 February, about eight o'clock at night, four fellows armed with knives stopped a servant on horseback between Ballybough Bridge and Summerhill, but he having no money , they robbed him of his handkerchief and the saddle on which he rode.On Monday, 25 February, at night, Mr. John Draper made a considerable seizure of tea from a smuggler at Ballybough Bridge, which with the smuggler's horse he brought to the Custom House.The Irish Builder, in 1870, noted the changes which had taken place on Mud Island as follows: "civilisation is here though sanitary perfection is yet distant...and the post-master general forgets to remember the classic name by which Spring Garden was formerly known".

[5] James Clarence Mangan used the pseudonym 'Peter Puff Secundus, Mud Island, near the bog' to identify with the area.

Watty Cox, editor of The Union Star was a resident of Ballybough was given amnesty by the Crown for passing on information concerning the United Irishmen.

The RIC Barracks on Fairview Strand was attacked, and the 2nd Battalion of the IRA fought English forces at Ballybough Bridge.

One of the final incidents of the conflict took place on Bayview Avenue when the IRA engaged British soldiers during a raid.

Ballybough Bridge was originally a wooden structure built in 1313 by John Le Decer, three times Provost, or Mayor of Dublin, and shortly after its construction was destroyed by floods.

During the rebellion an engagement took place "between the insurgents and the forces of the Crown at Ballybough Bridge resulting in a great slaughter of Englishmen there and in Clontarf".

An act was passed in 1792 giving powers to city officials to borrow money to improve the neighbourhood of Ballybough Bridge.

[21][22] (Irish: Droichead an Chléirigh) This bridge was built in 1790–1791 to carry Ballybough Road over the Royal Canal.

The Jewish population of Dublin was concentrated in Annadale, north of the Tolka and in the vicinity of present-day Philipsburgh Avenue.

A site a few yards from the convent was selected and building commenced but the project ran into financial difficulties and construction ceased.

It wasn't until after O'Malley's death in 1904 that the church was completed under the fourth parish priest, Canon Michael Walsh.

Statues of the Sacred Heart, St. Agatha, and St. Patrick stand on the pediment, the arches are decorated with paintings of the Agony in the Garden, the Supper at Emmaus, and the Annunciation.

The foundation stone was laid by visiting Bishop Matthew Simpson from America in 1881 and the church was opened in on 2 April 1882.

15 Norman Terrace (now part of Jones's Road) opposite the chapel was acquired sometime between 1885–1888 and served as a manse, although this was later sold when the community dwindled and donations lessened.

Many men of the Parish of Drumcondra and North Strand enlisted in the British Army at the outbreak of the First World War and the fallen are commemorated on brass plates in the church.

It opened as a Sunday School in 1786, after it was noted that "a total want of education, both moral and religious prevailed among children" in the area.

[34] The extent of the poverty affecting the families of those attending the North Strand School is attested to in a letter to the Dublin Chronicle on 24 December 1787: It has afforded my acquaintances in the neighbourhood of Ballybough Bridge in observing nearly a hundred poor children of every persuasion, instructed every day of the week in spelling, reading etc., in the Sunday School on the North Strand.

The demeanour of these children bespeaks the civilisation of their manners and I beg leave to suggest a plan of further benevolence through the medium of your valuable paper, for those pitiful objects who are half naked and shivering in this inclement weather.In 1826, there were 173 registered and three teachers employed.

In 1857 another order, the Daughters of St Vincent de Paul (otherwise known as the Vincentian Sisters) took up residence in the convent and immediately set about establishing a Catholic school for the children of the area.

The schools and convent on North William Street provided shelter to over 300 displaced families after the German Bombing of Dublin in 1941.

[36] Blessed Edmund Ignatius Rice, founder of the Christian Brothers established a school on North Richmond Street in 1831.

Edmund Rice, two assistants, a schoolmaster, and four novice Christian Brothers moved into the school in July 1831 and over 500 pupils enrolled in the first year.

He gave public experiments of his new system of mneomonics in the city to aid charitable organisations, and delivered a series of lectures for the Royal Dublin Society.

He became something of a celebrity in Dublin and several people who had heard him speak raised money to establish an educational institution in which his methods would be used to teach.

Feinaigle advanced the sum of £4,500 towards the purchase of Aldborough House on Portland Row, at the very edge of Ballybough and North Strand.

The Feinaiglian Institute became one of the premier secondary schools in Ireland, but closed less than ten years after Feinaigle's death in 1819.