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
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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