WILLIAM SADLER II (1782-1839)
A View over Dublin Bay Looking Towards Howth, Ireland's Eye and Lamb Bay, with Frascati in the foreground, together with figures and animals
Oil on panel, 48 x 79cm
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Castle Dawson Avenue - unknown photographer and date
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Dawson Court
NAME Dawson Court
AREA LOCATION Cross Avenue, Booterstown
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of Merrion
and it is annotated as Dawson Court on both.
GENERAL Dawson Court was built as a dower house for Castle Dawson House. It had
three storeys over basement and had a Gibbsian arched doorway. In 1836 it was described as
being in perfect repair with stabling outhouses and coach house with a courtyard and fine garden.
It had three sitting rooms and five bedchambers as well as dressing rooms etc. The house was for
sale in 1907 described as a commodious house with ten rooms. It had a fruit garden and tennis
grounds.
YEAR BUILT circa 1790
VALUATION In 1863 the valuation was 46 pounds and in the 1901 census it is noted as
having 13 rooms occupied by family.
ARCHITECT Unknown
SOURCES Thom's, contemporaneous newspapers, NAI Census & Wills and OSI Maps
OCCUPANTS
1795 - 1797 John Dawson Coates
1797 - 1812 Elizabeth Dawson
1820 - 1822 Chamberlain William Walker. House on 5 acres
1829 Margaret Dwyer
1833 - 1835 Rev Dr John Henderson Singer
1835 - 1836 For Let/For Sale on 1 Irish acre
1837 John A Hamilton
1840 - 1851 James Huffington
1851 - 1852 James Gernon
1853 Capt Richard Annesley Joynt Annesley
1854 Mrs Annesley
1856 William James Eames
1858 Robert Blakeney Mitchell RIP
1858 - 1859 William O'Connor Morris
1861 - 1870 James W Macauley
1870 - 1872 For Sale/Vacant
1873 - 1883 Michael Mills-King
1884 Robert Finlay Heron
1885 - 1898 Mrs Heron
1898 - 1908 R Finlay Heron
1910 - 1914 Eliza Lambe Hewat
1921 - 1927 Henry Morgan Dockrell
1935 - 1941 M McGrath/Cornelius P McGrath
1957 For Sale
1971 Sold, vandalised and demolished
1986 Dawson Court Apartment block
STAFF
1901 Mary Anne Anderson - Domestic Servant
1910 Miss Elizabeth Condrin - Cook (RIP)
1911 Winnifred McAuliffe - Cook
Sarah Campbell - Housemaid
CURRENT
STATUS No longer extant
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE November 2019
AREA LOCATION Cross Avenue, Booterstown
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of Merrion
and it is annotated as Dawson Court on both.
GENERAL Dawson Court was built as a dower house for Castle Dawson House. It had
three storeys over basement and had a Gibbsian arched doorway. In 1836 it was described as
being in perfect repair with stabling outhouses and coach house with a courtyard and fine garden.
It had three sitting rooms and five bedchambers as well as dressing rooms etc. The house was for
sale in 1907 described as a commodious house with ten rooms. It had a fruit garden and tennis
grounds.
YEAR BUILT circa 1790
VALUATION In 1863 the valuation was 46 pounds and in the 1901 census it is noted as
having 13 rooms occupied by family.
ARCHITECT Unknown
SOURCES Thom's, contemporaneous newspapers, NAI Census & Wills and OSI Maps
OCCUPANTS
1795 - 1797 John Dawson Coates
1797 - 1812 Elizabeth Dawson
1820 - 1822 Chamberlain William Walker. House on 5 acres
1829 Margaret Dwyer
1833 - 1835 Rev Dr John Henderson Singer
1835 - 1836 For Let/For Sale on 1 Irish acre
1837 John A Hamilton
1840 - 1851 James Huffington
1851 - 1852 James Gernon
1853 Capt Richard Annesley Joynt Annesley
1854 Mrs Annesley
1856 William James Eames
1858 Robert Blakeney Mitchell RIP
1858 - 1859 William O'Connor Morris
1861 - 1870 James W Macauley
1870 - 1872 For Sale/Vacant
1873 - 1883 Michael Mills-King
1884 Robert Finlay Heron
1885 - 1898 Mrs Heron
1898 - 1908 R Finlay Heron
1910 - 1914 Eliza Lambe Hewat
1921 - 1927 Henry Morgan Dockrell
1935 - 1941 M McGrath/Cornelius P McGrath
1957 For Sale
1971 Sold, vandalised and demolished
1986 Dawson Court Apartment block
STAFF
1901 Mary Anne Anderson - Domestic Servant
1910 Miss Elizabeth Condrin - Cook (RIP)
1911 Winnifred McAuliffe - Cook
Sarah Campbell - Housemaid
CURRENT
STATUS No longer extant
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE November 2019