Castledawson
NAME Castledawson/Castle Dawson/Blackrock College
AREA LOCATION Top of Castle Dawson Avenue off the Rock Road.
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of
Williamstown and it is annotated as Castledawson school and Blackrock.
College respectively.
GENERAL Now integrated into Blackrock College.
YEAR BUILT circa 1752
ARCHITECT Unknown
SOURCES Thom’s directories, OSI maps, Griffith's Valuation, NAI Census & Wills
contemporaneous newspapers, Griffith's Valuation and Registry of Deeds.
OCCUPANTS
1751 Land leased from Lord Fitzwilliam to Thomas Keatinge, builder
1767 - 1786 Hon James Massy Dawson
1802 - 1807 Mrs Dowlings School
1807 - 1845 Rev Alexander Leney's School
1846 - 1847 John Bolton Massey
1848 - 1856 Rt Hon Edward Litton, MP
1857 Interest in lease for sale By Sidney Herbert (Including Clareville)
1860 - todate Holy Ghost fathers – French College of The Immaculate Heart of Mary
(Blackrock College)
PUPILS
1823 Kent, Darley, Clarke, Hutchinson, Rochefort, Ashenhurt, Gofrey, Pasley,
Bernard, Parkinson, Doyle, Ledwich and Hanna.
STAFF
1849 Mary McDonnell - Gatekeeper
CURRENT Integrated into Blackrock College
STATUS
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE May 2019
AREA LOCATION Top of Castle Dawson Avenue off the Rock Road.
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of
Williamstown and it is annotated as Castledawson school and Blackrock.
College respectively.
GENERAL Now integrated into Blackrock College.
YEAR BUILT circa 1752
ARCHITECT Unknown
SOURCES Thom’s directories, OSI maps, Griffith's Valuation, NAI Census & Wills
contemporaneous newspapers, Griffith's Valuation and Registry of Deeds.
OCCUPANTS
1751 Land leased from Lord Fitzwilliam to Thomas Keatinge, builder
1767 - 1786 Hon James Massy Dawson
1802 - 1807 Mrs Dowlings School
1807 - 1845 Rev Alexander Leney's School
1846 - 1847 John Bolton Massey
1848 - 1856 Rt Hon Edward Litton, MP
1857 Interest in lease for sale By Sidney Herbert (Including Clareville)
1860 - todate Holy Ghost fathers – French College of The Immaculate Heart of Mary
(Blackrock College)
PUPILS
1823 Kent, Darley, Clarke, Hutchinson, Rochefort, Ashenhurt, Gofrey, Pasley,
Bernard, Parkinson, Doyle, Ledwich and Hanna.
STAFF
1849 Mary McDonnell - Gatekeeper
CURRENT Integrated into Blackrock College
STATUS
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE May 2019