This name appears to be unconnected with St. Mary's Dominican Convent. On the first edition of the Ordnance Survey map (1837), ‘Paradise Avenue’ corresponds to modern Convent Road. This street ended abruptly at its southern end, and there were no other streets between it and York Road at the time. When the area was re-surveyed in 1869, the various streets as we know them today had been developed. Cross Avenue is shown; it transversed a number of these new thoroughfares and connected them. Although the location of ‘St. Mary’s [Dominican] Convent’ was shown on this revised map, the convent had not yet influenced the nomenclature of the area: ‘Paradise Row’ corresponded to the modern Convent Road and Dominick Street did not yet exist.