NAME                       Blackthorns Farm - Photographs courtesy of the Stuart Family

AREA LOCATION   Blackthorn Road, Sandyford Industrial estate.
 
MAP LOCATION    OSI map of 1898-1913 place it in the townland of Blackthorn and it is
                                  annotated as Blackthorns.
 
GENERAL                 Vernacular Irish farmhouse with coursed random rubble walls surrounded
​by yard and outbuildings.  Thought to be on 70 acres and in use as a dairy farm from 1880 to 1959. 

YEAR BUILT            circa 1878
 
VALUATION           No listing of a valuation found.

​NUMBER OF
​ROOMS                   On the 1901 census it is noted as having 5 rooms occupied by family.
          
 
ARCHITECT            Unknown
 
SOURCES               Thom’s directories, contemporaneous newspapers, Registry of Deeds, OSI
                                Maps and NAI Census & Wills.
   
OCCUPANTS

1866 - 1878           Rev John Sullivan of the Benedictine Farm in receivership in 1878
1878 - 1959           Stuart Family
1975 -                     Abbey Properties
1980                       Land Purchased by IDA

STAFF
1879                       Michael Cahill - Labourer
​1900                       Mr McCluskey - Labourer
                 
CURRENT
STATUS                   No longer extant, demolished in the late 1970's

CONTRIBUTOR     © June Bow/Karen Poff
DATE                        January 2018