Bellosquardo
NAME Bellosquardo/Ardagh
AREA Newtownpark Avenue, Blackrock
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of
Galloping Green North on both.
GENERAL A Victorian house with 3 gatelodges (one Ardagh Lodge is still extant
midway between Ardlui Park and Ardagh Drive on Newtownpark Avenue). The other two
were on Carysfort Avenue and although the gate lodges are gone, part of the gate piers still
survives.
The name of the house was changed to Ardagh Park in 1940. A relatively small house with
various extensions and stabling on thirty four acres. Two storey with glassed-in portico and
an entrance hall with parquet floor which was 32.5' in length. In 1906 it was put on the market
and its selling points included seven bedrooms, a hot air system for heating the house and a
Turkish bath.
YEAR BUILT circa 1833
VALUATION In 1912 the valuation was 143 pounds.
NUMBER OF
ROOMS On the 1901 census it is noted as having 24 rooms occupied by family.
ARCHITECT Unknown
SOURCES Topographical Dictionary of Ireland 1837 - Samuel Lewis, Thom's
NAI Census & Wills, Parish Records, contemporaneous newspapers
and OSI Maps.
OCCUPANTS
1833 Land owned by Joseph Goff
1833 - 1917 Powell Family
1918 - 1921 Gilmore family
1925 Vacant
1926 - 1940 Keogh Family
1940 -1952 Ruttledge family
STAFF
1849 Anne Kileen - Gatekeeper/2nd lodge vacant
1859 Mr Richards - Gardener
1870 William Jackson - Labourer
1871 - 1874 John Thomas Sainsbury - Coachman living in Bellosquardo Lodge
1882 Mary Lawlor
1889 - 1890 Joseph Blevins - Labourer (living on site)
1896 - 1897 Thomas Peers - Groom
1900 - 1906 Joseph Shiels - Coachman
1901 - 1909 Eleanor Chapman - Housekeeper
1901 Victoria Paul - Cook born 14.03.1877 at Carnamoney, Derry.
1901 - 1909 Deborah Grant - Parlourmaid
1901 Mary Stuart - Housemaid born 1884
1907 - 1911 Richard Bryan - Gardener (lodge 1)
1911 - 1916 Robert Marks - Gardener (lodge 2)
1911 - 1917 Margaret Lindsay - General Domestic Servant
CURRENT
STATUS Demolished circa 1952
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow
DATE February 2017
AREA Newtownpark Avenue, Blackrock
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of
Galloping Green North on both.
GENERAL A Victorian house with 3 gatelodges (one Ardagh Lodge is still extant
midway between Ardlui Park and Ardagh Drive on Newtownpark Avenue). The other two
were on Carysfort Avenue and although the gate lodges are gone, part of the gate piers still
survives.
The name of the house was changed to Ardagh Park in 1940. A relatively small house with
various extensions and stabling on thirty four acres. Two storey with glassed-in portico and
an entrance hall with parquet floor which was 32.5' in length. In 1906 it was put on the market
and its selling points included seven bedrooms, a hot air system for heating the house and a
Turkish bath.
YEAR BUILT circa 1833
VALUATION In 1912 the valuation was 143 pounds.
NUMBER OF
ROOMS On the 1901 census it is noted as having 24 rooms occupied by family.
ARCHITECT Unknown
SOURCES Topographical Dictionary of Ireland 1837 - Samuel Lewis, Thom's
NAI Census & Wills, Parish Records, contemporaneous newspapers
and OSI Maps.
OCCUPANTS
1833 Land owned by Joseph Goff
1833 - 1917 Powell Family
1918 - 1921 Gilmore family
1925 Vacant
1926 - 1940 Keogh Family
1940 -1952 Ruttledge family
STAFF
1849 Anne Kileen - Gatekeeper/2nd lodge vacant
1859 Mr Richards - Gardener
1870 William Jackson - Labourer
1871 - 1874 John Thomas Sainsbury - Coachman living in Bellosquardo Lodge
1882 Mary Lawlor
1889 - 1890 Joseph Blevins - Labourer (living on site)
1896 - 1897 Thomas Peers - Groom
1900 - 1906 Joseph Shiels - Coachman
1901 - 1909 Eleanor Chapman - Housekeeper
1901 Victoria Paul - Cook born 14.03.1877 at Carnamoney, Derry.
1901 - 1909 Deborah Grant - Parlourmaid
1901 Mary Stuart - Housemaid born 1884
1907 - 1911 Richard Bryan - Gardener (lodge 1)
1911 - 1916 Robert Marks - Gardener (lodge 2)
1911 - 1917 Margaret Lindsay - General Domestic Servant
CURRENT
STATUS Demolished circa 1952
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow
DATE February 2017