Ardmore
NAME Belview/Ardmore
AREA LOCATION Stillorgan Road, UCD Campus.
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of Roebuck
and it is annotated as Belview and Ardmore respectively.
GENERAL Ardmore House is a typical example of a 19th century country villa. An
extension in the late 1800s incorporated a balustraded Corinthian porch and bow ends. It
had a gate lodge, and stables which burned down in 1897.
‘Upon this holding there is a small dwelling house two stories high consisting of parlour, drawing room
and two bed chambers, basement story with kitchen and servants apartments, stabling for five horses
coach house and garden.’ (Brassington 1832)
YEAR BUILT circa 1800
VALUATION
ARCHITECT William Donlevy. Ambrose Moore made improvements.
SOURCES Thom’s directories, Griffith's Valuation, contemporaneous newspapers, NAI
Census & Wills and OSI Maps
OCCUPANTS
1877 Lord Chancellor & Mrs Ball
1883 - 1888 John William Jameson
1888 - 1889 Mrs Jameson
1889 - 1897 Surgeon Colonel Brisbane Somerville Large
E J Beaumont-Nesbitt
1901 - 1904 To Let
1914 To Let
1921 - 1947 Frederick Henry Hall
1947 For sale on 15A 3R 25P
1948 Government purchase
1957 Purchased by UCD (swapped with Montrose)
STAFF
CURRENT
STATUS Extant
CONTRIBUTORS © June Bow Catherine Brugha & Karen Poff
DATE Jan 2019
NAME Belview/Ardmore
AREA LOCATION Stillorgan Road, UCD Campus.
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of Roebuck
and it is annotated as Belview and Ardmore respectively.
GENERAL Ardmore House is a typical example of a 19th century country villa. An
extension in the late 1800s incorporated a balustraded Corinthian porch and bow ends. It
had a gate lodge, and stables which burned down in 1897.
‘Upon this holding there is a small dwelling house two stories high consisting of parlour, drawing room
and two bed chambers, basement story with kitchen and servants apartments, stabling for five horses
coach house and garden.’ (Brassington 1832)
YEAR BUILT circa 1800
VALUATION
ARCHITECT William Donlevy. Ambrose Moore made improvements.
SOURCES Thom’s directories, Griffith's Valuation, contemporaneous newspapers, NAI
Census & Wills and OSI Maps
OCCUPANTS
1877 Lord Chancellor & Mrs Ball
1883 - 1888 John William Jameson
1888 - 1889 Mrs Jameson
1889 - 1897 Surgeon Colonel Brisbane Somerville Large
E J Beaumont-Nesbitt
1901 - 1904 To Let
1914 To Let
1921 - 1947 Frederick Henry Hall
1947 For sale on 15A 3R 25P
1948 Government purchase
1957 Purchased by UCD (swapped with Montrose)
STAFF
CURRENT
STATUS Extant
CONTRIBUTORS © June Bow Catherine Brugha & Karen Poff
DATE Jan 2019