Backlane Univarsity

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Back Lane: lane between Cornmarket and St Nicholas Streets, Dublin. Per the Annals of Dublin of 1622, a chapel and university for Roman Catholics was established there during the reign of Charles I; the government seized it in 1630 and transferred it to Trinity College.