NAME Brookfield House
AREA LOCATION Off Carysfort Avenue
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of Blackrock
but it is not annotated.
GENERAL Boarding house between 1901 and 1911
YEAR BUILT Unknown
VALUATION In 1864 the valuation was 20 pounds and in the 1901 census it is noted as
having 11 rooms occupied by family.
ARCHITECT Unknown
SOURCES Thom's, Contemporaneous newspapers, NAI Census & Wills, OSI Maps, South
Dublin Historical Mapping.
OCCUPANTS
1842 Thomas Jebb
1855 -1867 Miss Barrett/Mrs Hatch/Bluett/Franck - Brookfield Boarding School
1868 - 1869 Rev Henry Seddall
1870 Vacant
1871 - 1877 James Pinkerton
1878 - 1912 The Misses Pinkerton (Catherine Jane & Mary Anne)
1911 235 houses built by the council at a cost of 47K
1921 Vacant
1925 - 1945 Mrs Annie McCarthy
STAFF
1911 Mary Devitt - Cook
Margaret McManus - House/Parlourmaid
CURRENT
STATUS No longer extant
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE January 2021