Situated off Clonard Gardens. May be named after Dunmore, Co. Galway, Dunmore East, Co. Waterford, or one of several other places of the same name. Alternatively, it may be named after one of the Earls of Dunmore, and the presence of Bantry Street and Oranmore Street nearby may support this (Earl of Bantry? Baron Oranmore?). Note that Dunmore Street is not part of the cluster of streets named after the house Dunmore, located off Antrim Road.
“On application of the owners, your Committee have named two new streets off Broadway and Falls road ‘Nansen Street’ and ‘Iveagh Street’; new streets off Springfield road, Cupar street and Clonard street ‘Aboo street’, ‘Bantry street,’ ‘Benares street’, ‘Bombay street’, ‘Cawnpore street’, ‘Dunmore street’, ‘Dingle street, ‘Lucknow street’, ‘Oranmore street’, ‘Tralee street’, and they have changed the name of ‘Faloon’s court’ to ‘Fleet street place’.” Minutes, Town Improvement Committee, 23 June 1897.