Belfort

   
NAME                            Belfort

AREA LOCATION         Newpark School (known as the Redbrick Building)
 
MAP LOCATION          OSI map of 1888-1913 place it in the townland of Newtown Castlebyrne
                                        and it is annotated as Belfort.
                                     
GENERAL                      Mid Victorian redbrick detached three-bay two-storey house with gatelodge
and stabling, built 1870 for Graves Swan Warren.  It interest in the lease was for sale in 1892 and 
it was described at being a modern villa standing on 1 acre of tastefully planted grounds.
                                                

YEAR BUILT                 circa 1870     
 
VALUATION                 In 1935 the valuation was 73 pounds and in the 1911 census it is noted as
​                                       having 15 rooms occupied by family.                       
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ARCHITECT                  Unknown     
 
SOURCES                      Thom's, contemporaneous newspapers, NAI Census & Wills, OSI Maps, South
                                       Dublin Historical Mapping.
  
OCCUPANTS

1870 - 1891                   Graves Swan Warren
1891 - 1892                   George Pim Malcomson
1893 - 1897                   Thomas Hayes
1898                               Vacant
1899 - 1900                   Charles Hill
1907 - 1935                    Joseph MacDermott
1936                                For Sale on two acres
1936 - 1971                    Avoca School move here from Whitehall
1971                                Newpark Comprehensive School
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STAFF
​​1907 - 1911                   Ellen Twamley - Parlourmaid
1911                               Honor Reilly - Cook
                                        Alice Byrne - Housemaid 
                                        Agnes McNamee - Serving maid

1936 - 1962                   Cyril Parker - Owner & Headmaster       


CURRENT
STATUS                          Extant

CONTRIBUTOR            ©​ June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE                              January 2019