In John Rocque's map of Dublin in the late 1750s, Lincoln Place was marked as St Patricks Lane.

[2] It was renamed Lincoln Place in 1862[1] by Dublin Corporation as the street was deemed to have a poor reputation.

[2] Clerkin states the street was named for Abraham Lincoln who was elected the previous year.

[3] The street has a number of notable buildings, including the Dublin Dental University Hospital[4] and Lincoln Chambers.

[5] Two of the street's buildings were mentioned in James Joyce's Ulysses: Sweny's Pharmacy[6] and the Victorian Turkish Baths.