Booterstown Castle
 
NAME                            Booterstown Castle/St Mary's

AREA LOCATION         Booterstown Avenue
 
MAP LOCATION          OSI map of 1838 - 1845  place it in the townland of Williamstown and
​                                        is annotated as Booterstown Castle.
 
GENERAL                  ​    A fifteenth century fortified house which is now incorporated into 
St Mary's, 54 Booterstown Avenue.  It was for sale in 1774 on 4 acres.  St Mary's was in use as the
parochial house for the RC Church in Booterstown (the church was built in 1812 and was called St
Mary's prior to being dedicated to Our Lady of the Assumption in 1950).  In 1779 it was for lease
by Mr D'Olier having spent 300L on it.
     
YEAR BUILT                  c1439
 
VALUATION                  In 1862 the valuation was 39 pounds.
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NUMBER
OF ROOMS                    In the 1901 census it is noted as having 20 rooms occupied by 12 people.

 
ARCHITECT                    Unknown.  
 
SOURCES                        Thom’s directories, contemporaneous newspapers, 
​                                          NAI Census & Wills, Rev B H Blacker, F E Ball and OSI Maps
  
OCCUPANTS
1439                                Philip Fitz William
1630's                             Sir William Ryves
1760                                In disrepair
1774                                Rev Archdeacon Wight
1799                                For lease
1826 - 1832                    George Hamilton
1839                                James Pim
1840 - 1847                    Rev Ennis pp, St Mary's Booterstown
1862 - 1873                    Rev Forde pp, Booterstown
1937                                For Sale
1942                                Margery McDonagh
STAFF

        
CURRENT
STATUS                            Extant

CONTRIBUTOR              © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE                                December 2020