Bellevue
NAME Belle Vue Villa/Bellevue
AREA LOCATION Kilmacud Road, intersection between Upper Kilmacud Road and Drummartin
Link Road.
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of Drummartin
and it is unnamed and annotated as Bellevue respectively. Anthony Byrne
Darcy held the lease in 1846.
GENERAL Villa with gate lodge, coach house stabling for two horses on 9 acres.
YEAR BUILT circa 1840
VALUATION In 1900 the valuation was 56 pounds and in the 1901 census it is noted as
having 14 rooms occupied by family.
ARCHITECT Unknown
SOURCES Thom’s directories, contemporaneous newspapers, NAI Census & Wills and
OSI Maps.
OCCUPANTS
1846 - 1854 Mrs Henrietta Crawford
1855 William Jones, clothier
1858 - 1860 Charles Magee
1861 - 1866 Philip Lawless
1866 - 1868 George Howard Montgomery
1868 - 1872 Philip Lawless
1873 Vacant
1874 - 1882 Thomas Brett
1883 - 1895 Charles Bennett
1896 Vacant
1897 - 1921 Thomas Stephen Carey
1922 - 1923 For Sale
1926 - 1935 William Godfrey Evans Longworth
1936 - 1947 Frank Fahy, TD
1958 - 1980 William Frederick Bewley
2005 For Sale - Guide 1.4 sold at 2.02 million
STAFF
1901 Mary Culleton - Parlour maid
Mary Dowman - Cook
1911 Mary Condon - Servant
Mary Murray - Servant
1950 - 1980 Seabright family living in gate lodge
CURRENT
STATUS Extant and a private residence
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE December 2017
AREA LOCATION Kilmacud Road, intersection between Upper Kilmacud Road and Drummartin
Link Road.
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of Drummartin
and it is unnamed and annotated as Bellevue respectively. Anthony Byrne
Darcy held the lease in 1846.
GENERAL Villa with gate lodge, coach house stabling for two horses on 9 acres.
YEAR BUILT circa 1840
VALUATION In 1900 the valuation was 56 pounds and in the 1901 census it is noted as
having 14 rooms occupied by family.
ARCHITECT Unknown
SOURCES Thom’s directories, contemporaneous newspapers, NAI Census & Wills and
OSI Maps.
OCCUPANTS
1846 - 1854 Mrs Henrietta Crawford
1855 William Jones, clothier
1858 - 1860 Charles Magee
1861 - 1866 Philip Lawless
1866 - 1868 George Howard Montgomery
1868 - 1872 Philip Lawless
1873 Vacant
1874 - 1882 Thomas Brett
1883 - 1895 Charles Bennett
1896 Vacant
1897 - 1921 Thomas Stephen Carey
1922 - 1923 For Sale
1926 - 1935 William Godfrey Evans Longworth
1936 - 1947 Frank Fahy, TD
1958 - 1980 William Frederick Bewley
2005 For Sale - Guide 1.4 sold at 2.02 million
STAFF
1901 Mary Culleton - Parlour maid
Mary Dowman - Cook
1911 Mary Condon - Servant
Mary Murray - Servant
1950 - 1980 Seabright family living in gate lodge
CURRENT
STATUS Extant and a private residence
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE December 2017