Ely Place Upper is a continuation on the south end of Ely Place. It consists of a terrace of five houses built in 1828.
No. 3 Ely Place Upper was the residence in the 1890s of Frederick and Annie Dick, and it became the meeting place of the Theosophical Society. W. B. Yeats, Maud Gonne and George Russell were visitors.
The writer George Moore lived in No. 4 at the start of the 20th century. He got into a row with his neighbours over the colour of his hall door.
On the other side of the street lived the writer, surgeon and wit Oliver St. John Gogarty (1878–1957). The Royal Hibernian Academy later took over the house.
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