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St Aubyn's & Netley - Photograph courtesy of Dominic Lee of Priory Studios.
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St Aubyns
NAME St Aubyn's
AREA LOCATION South Hill Avenue
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of Merrion
but is not annotated.
GENERAL Semi detached villa conjoined with Netley. A jar with 400 old silver coins
found in a sewer on South Hill Avenue behind the house in 1866 dating back to Charles II. It
had a pleasure ground, garden, lock-up yard, coach house and stabling for two horses. It was
part of the de Burgh estate in 1902 and was rented at £80 per annum and was for sale in 1941
on 2 acres.
YEAR BUILT circa 1838
VALUATION In 1872 the valuation was 46 pounds and in the 1901 census it is noted as
having 8 rooms occupied by family.
ARCHITECT Unknown
SOURCES Thom's, Contemporaneous newspapers, NAI Census & Wills, OSI Maps, South
Dublin Historical Mapping.
OCCUPANTS
1845 Samuel John Pittar
1846 - 1847 Mrs Pittar
1847 - 1851 John Smyth
1852 - 1854 Captain Thomas Edward Symonds
1860 - 1864 Rev Charles S Stanford
1866 Ralph Dudgeon (death of William Dudgeon)
1867 - 1874 David Armstrong
1875 - 1876 Robert Geoghegan CE
1877 - 1887 Rev Canon Albert Irwin MacDonogh
1888 - 1889 Vacant - For Let
1889 - 1892 Richard Barker de Burgh, JP
1893 Vacant
1894 - 1900 John Arthur Gilligan
1901 - 1912 Edward Gilligan
1925 - 1945 Richard O'Connor of Main Street Blackrock
1988 - todate Order of St Camillus
STAFF
1852 Mary A Field - Servant
1911 Margaret Cleary - Cook
CURRENT
STATUS
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE January 2020
AREA LOCATION South Hill Avenue
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of Merrion
but is not annotated.
GENERAL Semi detached villa conjoined with Netley. A jar with 400 old silver coins
found in a sewer on South Hill Avenue behind the house in 1866 dating back to Charles II. It
had a pleasure ground, garden, lock-up yard, coach house and stabling for two horses. It was
part of the de Burgh estate in 1902 and was rented at £80 per annum and was for sale in 1941
on 2 acres.
YEAR BUILT circa 1838
VALUATION In 1872 the valuation was 46 pounds and in the 1901 census it is noted as
having 8 rooms occupied by family.
ARCHITECT Unknown
SOURCES Thom's, Contemporaneous newspapers, NAI Census & Wills, OSI Maps, South
Dublin Historical Mapping.
OCCUPANTS
1845 Samuel John Pittar
1846 - 1847 Mrs Pittar
1847 - 1851 John Smyth
1852 - 1854 Captain Thomas Edward Symonds
1860 - 1864 Rev Charles S Stanford
1866 Ralph Dudgeon (death of William Dudgeon)
1867 - 1874 David Armstrong
1875 - 1876 Robert Geoghegan CE
1877 - 1887 Rev Canon Albert Irwin MacDonogh
1888 - 1889 Vacant - For Let
1889 - 1892 Richard Barker de Burgh, JP
1893 Vacant
1894 - 1900 John Arthur Gilligan
1901 - 1912 Edward Gilligan
1925 - 1945 Richard O'Connor of Main Street Blackrock
1988 - todate Order of St Camillus
STAFF
1852 Mary A Field - Servant
1911 Margaret Cleary - Cook
CURRENT
STATUS
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE January 2020