The street's name likely derives from the Latin word for cobbler or shoemaker, suggesting it may have been associated with the leather trades that were common in urban medieval economies. What makes this site quietly remarkable is precisely its elusiveness: the buildings are known to have existed, but their exact position within the city has not been pinpointed.

The reference comes from the work of historian Howard Clarke, who notes the hall and shops in his 2002 research into medieval Dublin's built environment. The year 1356 places these structures firmly in the later medieval period, when Dublin functioned as the administrative capital of English lordship in Ireland and its street network was already well established within the walled town. A hall in this context would typically have served a civic or mercantile function, perhaps connected to a guild or a prosperous merchant household, while the accompanying shops would have formed part of the everyday commercial fabric of the street. That a cluster of seven shops occupied a single street is itself a detail worth pausing on; it suggests a reasonably busy trading location, even if its precise character is now difficult to reconstruct.

Because the site has not been precisely located, there is no specific address to seek out or footprint to stand upon. Anyone curious about this corner of medieval Dublin would do better to approach it through the documentary record than through a map. Clarke's 2002 publication is the natural starting point for those who want to follow the thread further. The area around the medieval core of the city, broadly within the old walled town near the Christ Church and Wood Quay neighbourhoods, is the most plausible general vicinity, though that is inference rather than established fact. The street name itself has not survived into the modern city, which makes Sutor Street one of those small vanished geographies that shaped daily life for centuries before disappearing entirely from the urban fabric.