Photograph on steps is courtesy of Dominic Lee of Priory Studios and is circa 1952.   Judging by the width and number of steps, it would have been quite a substantial house. 

                                                                                             Oatland/Oatlands 

                                                                                                    
NAME                     Oatland/Oatlands

AREA                       Old Dublin Road, Stillorgan, on the site of what is now Oatlands College.

MAP LOCATION    OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of Stillorgan North and it is annotated as Oatland and                                     Oatlands respectively.  

GENERAL               "Land formerly held by Robert Emmet now in the possession of Thomas Addis Emmet leased to William Fleming for 95 years (Total land 13A 1R 17.5P)" -   Deed dated 1799.   On Taylors map of 1816 it is shown as a small house called Oatland.  
Oatlands was a five bay, two storey over basement with an Ionic portico.  Typically Georgian with a central Wyatt window above the porch. 
 
Oatlands originally had two gatelodges, one is still extant and was for sale in 2015.  An Arts & Crafts style lodge with tripartite oriel window and herringbone brick decorative panels.  The house itself was described as having 5 bedrooms with a drawing room that led to a greenhouse in 1823 but by 1904 it had seven bedrooms, four drawing rooms plus servants quarters.  In 1880 it was sold by the Landed Estate Court and purchased by Matthew Pollock, the tenant.  It housed the telescope of John Ross.

The house and grounds were home to the Stilorgan fete in the 1950's.  

YEAR BUILT             circa 1800

VALUATION             In 1912 the valuation was 124 pounds.

NUMBER OF
ROOMS                    The census of 1901 shows it with 21 rooms occupied by the family

ARCHITECT              Unknown

SOURCES                  OSI Maps, Thom's Directories, Newspapers.


OCCUPANTS 

1803 -1808             Mr Dickson of Parliament Street
1808  -1819            Leased to Thomas Fry for 85 years in 1808
1825                         James Woodroffe
1834 - 1855            Matthew Pollock Esq.
1855 - 1881            Matthew J Pollock Esq. 
1882 - 1885            Mrs. Pollock
1884 - 1904            James Gibson Pollock., Esq., J.P.
1905 - 1908            Rosamond Pollock
1909 - 1915            Frederick Digby Darley
1916 - 1922            Sir John Ross (Lord Chancellor of Ireland)
1925                        Miss Annie Marie Hughes & Mary Frances Hughes
1926 - 1927            Sir Peter Reilly O’Connell M.D., D.L. (lease)
1930 - 1937            Lady Jane O’Connell, (sister to Annie Hughes)
1937                        Contents for Sale
1937 - 1949            Land Let for Tillage & Grazing
1950                        Christian Brothers 
1968                        Demolished 

Staff

1849 - 1851            William Henderson - Gatekeeper
​1858                        John Morris - Gardener
1881                        Margaret Taylor - Servant
1883                        William John Black - Coachman
1886                        Thomas Walsh - Gardener

1901                        Ellen Casserly - Parlourmaid
                                 Mary Dunne - Housemaid
                                 Margaret Clarke - Laundress
​
1911                        Kate Morrissey - Cook
                                 Brigid Delaney -Housemaid
1947                        Thomas Keogh - Gatelodge


Current Status     No longer extant

Contributors         © June Bow & Karen Poff

DATE                       October 2017