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Avondale
NAME Avondale
AREA LOCATION Avoca Avenue, Stillorgan
MAP LOCATION OSI map of 1898 - 1913 places it in the townland of Stillorgan Grove but it
is not annotated.
GENERAL The plot of land of land for three houses was put up for sale in 1866 through
the encumbered court with houses Avondale and Altadore already built. James McNally was the
owner. Detached two storey Victorian house enclosed within a high wall.
YEAR BUILT 1860
VALUATION The valuation in 1881 was 44L and in the 1901 census it is noted as having 14
rooms.
ARCHITECT Unknown
SOURCES Thom’s directories, contemporaneous newspapers, NAI Census & Wills
Griffith's Valuation and OSI Maps.
OCCUPANTS
1862 Hon Andrew Godfrey Stuart
1868 - 1876 Frederick Francis O'Carroll
1877 - 1924 John Murphy
1925 For Sale
1926 - 1928 John Henry Pigot
1929 - 1960 John Charles MacGuigan
1963 For Sale
1967 For Sale
1971 - 1974 Ted Nealon (journalist, broadcaster and politician)
1998 Sold for 1.6 million
2024 For sale quoting €5,950k
STAFF
1901 - 1911 Anne Whelan - Cook
Catherin Fox- Housemaid
Catherine Green - Parlourmaid
1911 Margaret Green - Domestic servant
CURRENT
STATUS Extant and in use as a family home - a protected structure.
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE March 2020
AREA LOCATION Avoca Avenue, Stillorgan
MAP LOCATION OSI map of 1898 - 1913 places it in the townland of Stillorgan Grove but it
is not annotated.
GENERAL The plot of land of land for three houses was put up for sale in 1866 through
the encumbered court with houses Avondale and Altadore already built. James McNally was the
owner. Detached two storey Victorian house enclosed within a high wall.
YEAR BUILT 1860
VALUATION The valuation in 1881 was 44L and in the 1901 census it is noted as having 14
rooms.
ARCHITECT Unknown
SOURCES Thom’s directories, contemporaneous newspapers, NAI Census & Wills
Griffith's Valuation and OSI Maps.
OCCUPANTS
1862 Hon Andrew Godfrey Stuart
1868 - 1876 Frederick Francis O'Carroll
1877 - 1924 John Murphy
1925 For Sale
1926 - 1928 John Henry Pigot
1929 - 1960 John Charles MacGuigan
1963 For Sale
1967 For Sale
1971 - 1974 Ted Nealon (journalist, broadcaster and politician)
1998 Sold for 1.6 million
2024 For sale quoting €5,950k
STAFF
1901 - 1911 Anne Whelan - Cook
Catherin Fox- Housemaid
Catherine Green - Parlourmaid
1911 Margaret Green - Domestic servant
CURRENT
STATUS Extant and in use as a family home - a protected structure.
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE March 2020