Cedar Mount
NAME Mountainville Cottage /Cedarmount/ Cedar Mount
AREA LOCATION ROEBUCK, Mount Anville Road between Hollywood and Knockrabo.
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of Roebuck and it is annotated
as Mountainville Cottage and Cedar Mount respectively.
GENERAL ‘a house two stories high, consisting of parlour, drawing room, four bed chambers and closet with kitchen and servants apartments in basement story with coach house and stable’ (Brassington 1832). Bought from NAMA by Knockrabo Holdings in 2016 and it may include a café, gym and library for the residents of the new Knockrabo house complex.
YEAR BUILT circa 1790
VALUATION In 1872 the valuation was 60 pounds and in the 1901 census it is noted as having 12 rooms occupied by family.
ARCHITECT Unknown. Builder - James Gray
SOURCES Thom’s directories, Brassington & Gale 1832 & contemporaneous newspapers.
OCCUPANTS
In 1799 the land (meadow & pastures) is leased by the Rt. Hon. Lord Trimlestown to Mr Towers, by 1832 it is the estate of John Goddard Richard.
1850 - 1851 John West
1852 - 1868 Mrs West
1869 - 1875 Jonathan Hamilton Reid
1876 H C Davys Esq
1877 - 1878 Stephan Lanigan Esq
1879 Vacant
1880 - 1888 William Douglas Dickie Esq
1889 Mrs Dickie
1890 Vacant
1891 Joseph Smith, RUI Music
1895 - 1930 Rev H Kingsmill Moore , Church of Ireland Training College
1953 -1988 Vincent Gallagher, Architect & Supreme Knight of Columbanus
1999 - 2011 Niall Mellon
2011 Mrs Mellon
STAFF
1849 William Keegan - Gatelodge keeper.
1901 Mary Anna Byrne - Cook
Jane Tevlin - Housemaid
Frances Elizabeth Plant - Nurse
1911 Julia Spencer - Cook
Mary Kelly - House Parlourmaid
CURRENT
STATUS Extant
CONTRIBUTOR © Catherine Brugha & Karen Poff
DATE April 2018
AREA LOCATION ROEBUCK, Mount Anville Road between Hollywood and Knockrabo.
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of Roebuck and it is annotated
as Mountainville Cottage and Cedar Mount respectively.
GENERAL ‘a house two stories high, consisting of parlour, drawing room, four bed chambers and closet with kitchen and servants apartments in basement story with coach house and stable’ (Brassington 1832). Bought from NAMA by Knockrabo Holdings in 2016 and it may include a café, gym and library for the residents of the new Knockrabo house complex.
YEAR BUILT circa 1790
VALUATION In 1872 the valuation was 60 pounds and in the 1901 census it is noted as having 12 rooms occupied by family.
ARCHITECT Unknown. Builder - James Gray
SOURCES Thom’s directories, Brassington & Gale 1832 & contemporaneous newspapers.
OCCUPANTS
In 1799 the land (meadow & pastures) is leased by the Rt. Hon. Lord Trimlestown to Mr Towers, by 1832 it is the estate of John Goddard Richard.
1850 - 1851 John West
1852 - 1868 Mrs West
1869 - 1875 Jonathan Hamilton Reid
1876 H C Davys Esq
1877 - 1878 Stephan Lanigan Esq
1879 Vacant
1880 - 1888 William Douglas Dickie Esq
1889 Mrs Dickie
1890 Vacant
1891 Joseph Smith, RUI Music
1895 - 1930 Rev H Kingsmill Moore , Church of Ireland Training College
1953 -1988 Vincent Gallagher, Architect & Supreme Knight of Columbanus
1999 - 2011 Niall Mellon
2011 Mrs Mellon
STAFF
1849 William Keegan - Gatelodge keeper.
1901 Mary Anna Byrne - Cook
Jane Tevlin - Housemaid
Frances Elizabeth Plant - Nurse
1911 Julia Spencer - Cook
Mary Kelly - House Parlourmaid
CURRENT
STATUS Extant
CONTRIBUTOR © Catherine Brugha & Karen Poff
DATE April 2018