Ashurst
NAME Bayview/Palermo/Ashurst/Ash Hurst
AREA LOCATION Stillorgan Road between Booterstown Avenue and Mount Merrion Avenue.
It had an entrance from Mount Merrion Avenue.
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of Merrion
and it is annotated as Ashurst and Mt Merrion respectively.
GENERAL Called Palermo in the 1840's and renamed Ashurst circa 1895. Palermo
was for sale in 1890 on 3a 3p 30r. It had three reception rooms, four bedchambers, servants
quarters, kitchen and pantries. It also had a coach house, stable and a gatelodge at the
entrance. There was a production garden and an enclosed pleasure garden planted with
ornamental trees. The gatelodge was demolished circa 1900 and replaced with an Arts & Crafts
style house.
YEAR BUILT circa 1830
VALUATION In 1921 the valuation was 55 pounds and in the 1911 census it is noted as
having 20 rooms occupied by family.
ARCHITECT Unknown
SOURCES Thom's, contemporaneous newspapers, NAI Census & Wills, OSI Maps, South
Dublin Historical Mapping and Griffith's Valuation
OCCUPANTS
1827 - 1847 Henry Staines
1845 - 1848 Ebenezer Hore Hatchell
1865 - 1890 Miss Anne Hudson (Palermo)
1890 - 1894 Mark Lewis Orr (Palermo)
1895 - 1896 J B Burton of Ashurst No 97
1897 - 1898 William Burton
1900 - 1901 Vacant
1902 - 1905 Charles Jennings/Francis Curran Joseph Caldbeck
1906 - 1911 Mrs R J Robertson
1918 - 1923 Charles Dickinson
1924 - 1937 Joseph Xavier Murphy
1939 - 1949 Chief Justice Conor Maguire
1949 - 1956 Mrs Conor Maguire
1956 For Sale
1961 - 1991 Irish Telephone (New System) Company/Irish Telephone Rentals
1993 Ashurst Apartments five to six storeys
STAFF
1849 Michael Kennedy
1907 Henry Lucas - Coachman
1911 Mary Clarke - Cook
Jane Clarke - Parlourmaid
Mary Jane Griffiths - Housemaid
1930 James Burke
CURRENT
STATUS No longer extant
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE November 2021