Odessa is a major port city on the Black Sea in Ukraine. It was bombarded during a joint Anglo-French naval action against Tsarist Russia in April 1854 in the early months of the Crimean War (Nigel Henderson, talk, 16/02/2026, see Blog section). Odessa Street is not recorded in the 1877 directory but is present in the 1880 directory when there were four houses and the Clonard Mills premises of William Ross and Company.
"Resolved that the following names of streets submitted by the Surveyor be approved of: … Street from Clonard Street to Sevastopol Street — Odessa Street". (15th April 1874).