Cherbury

 
NAME                       Herbert House/Cherbury


AREA LOCATION    Booterstown Lane/Dark Avenue now Booterstown Avenue.

 
MAP LOCATION       OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of Merrion
                                     and it is annotated as Herbert House and Cherbury respectively.   

GENERAL                   Eighteenth century six bay villa which was originally called Herbert Lodge.
The name was changed to Cherbury circa 1850.  During the tenure of Robert Milner the house
was enlarged and a gatelodge added to a design by Charles Geoghegan.  In the 20th century it
was number 70 Booterstown Avenue.  The house had an unusual tripartite, treble window over
the porch and in 1802 was described as having thirteen rooms of which four were over 30 feet
long.  It had stabling for twelve horses, a bake house, dairy, melon yard and an ice house.  It also
had six gardens and four hot houses, one of which was 250 feet long.  Its detached kitchen had
servant quarters above it ​measuring 40 x 25 feet.  In 1895 when it was put up for it was described
as a seven bedroom house on 15 acres with large gardens, a gatelodge, coach house and stabling.
In the bad storm of February 1903, one of the chimney stacks collapsed into a bedroom, the
occupants were unhurt but trapped and were helped to safety via a window.                     
                                           ​
YEAR BUILT              circa 1760        
 
VALUATION             In 1887 the valuation was 114 pounds and in the 1911 census it is noted as
​                                    having 21 rooms occupied by family.

ARCHITECT               Unknown

SOURCES                  Thom’s directories, OSI maps, Griffith's Valuation, NAI Census & Wills
                                    contemporaneous newspapers, Griffith's Valuation and Registry of Deeds.
  
OCCUPANTS

1776 - 1791                Sir Samuel Bradstreet
1791 - 1799                Lady Bradstreet
1808 - 1809                John 'Bully' Egan
1805                            For Sale by Stanhope Gresham
1809 - 1810                For Sale with 7 Bedrooms
1812 - 1813                Henry La Nauze
1814 - 1835                Hon James Fitzgerald (White Knight)
1837 - 1841                Henry La Nauze
1848 - 1852                William M'Cann
1852 - 1863                Charles Meara
1864 - 1887                Robert Milner
1887 - 1893                Mrs Milner
​1895 - 1896                For Sale on 15 acres
1896                            John R D'Olier
1897 - 1899                Ernest Manico
1900 - 1903                Robert Bruce
1909                            For Sale 
1910 - 1931                Thomas Newcomen Edgeworth
1932 - 1954                Lt Col Kenneth Essex Edgeworth
1955 - 1967                Mrs Edgeworth
1951 - 1954                Cherbury Gardens built in the grounds by Griffen Bros
c1970                          Demolished
1978                            Cherbury Court opens
             
STAFF
1858 - 1863                Mr William Carter - Gardener
1881 - 1893                Mr Phelan - Gardener
​1901                            Thomas Davis - Gardener - living at gatelodge
​1901                            Lizzie Hallihan - Domestic servant
1911                            Katherine Byrne - Cook
                                     Mary Josephine Gaffney - Laundress
                                     Hannah Ryan - Parlourmaid
                                     Mary Murphy - Kitchenmaid
1964                            Mr Dodd -  Gardener
       
CURRENT            
STATUS                       No longer extant

CONTRIBUTOR         ©​ June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE                            May 2019