Ardmore House 2021 courtesy of Declan McGinn

                                              Ardmore
 
 
NAME                        Belview/Ardmore/Ardmore House

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.  It appears as
                                    Belview on both Taylor's Map 1816 and Duncan's Map 1821.
 
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
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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)
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STAFF

CURRENT
STATUS                    Extant

CONTRIBUTORS    © June Bow Catherine Brugha & Karen Poff
DATE                         Jan 2019