The residents of this part of the street petitioned the Wide Streets Commission to have the name changed because of a bad reputation which made it difficult to find respectable tenants for the properties.

[2] M'Cready could find no explanation for the choice of Wicklow as the new name.

1-3 Wicklow Street in 1869 by Thomas Weir after leaving Wests in College Green.

The drapers Brown Thomas moved from Grafton Street into a property on Nos.

[citation needed] There are a number of shops, cafes and restaurants on the street.