A view of the Dublin & Kingstown Railway from Blackwork. Coloured aquatint looking across Dublin Bay towards Williamstown and Merrion, with Dublin in the distance by J Harris 1834.
Dove House
NAME The Dove House/Dove House/Ardmore/Europa Cars
AREA Newtown Avenue, opposite Seapoint Avenue
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1837- 1842 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of Blackrock
and it is annotated as Dove House and Ardmore respectively. It appears on
Rocques (1760) and Taylors map (1816) but is not named.
GENERAL A Georgian eight roomed non-basement residence. The house was to let
in 1829 and was described as 'built in the best manner with coach house, stable and neat
garden'. By 1889 the house was called Ardmore. In 1912 part of the grounds were acquired by
the Blackrock Township for social housing and road widening. In 1919 it was for sale with 4
reception rooms, 7 bedrooms and a motor house, tennis court and pleasure gardens. In 1947
Dun Laoghaire fire brigade were called to the premises to extinguish the roof which had caught fire.
YEAR BUILT circa 1760
VALUATION In 1867 the valuation was 34 pounds.
NUMBER OF
ROOMS Noted as having 16 rooms occupied by family in 1901.
ARCHITECT Unknown
SOURCES Thom's, contemporaneous newspapers, OSI Maps, Registry of Deeds,
NAI Census & Wills and Griffiths Valuation.
OCCUPANTS
Site owned by George Burroughs and house owned by Lord Cloncurry in 1827.
1827 -1836 Lyster Family
1837 Burroughs to Mahony 1837 17 111 442
1841 - 1845 William Thomas Mulvany
1846 - 1848 Daniel Hodgens
1849 - 1950 Mrs O' Donoghue
1853 Auction of Contents (8 rooms)
1857 - 1867 Miss Scavory
1868 - 1873 Rev Ambrose Lane
1874 George Nesbitt
1876 Vacant
1876 - 1877 Mrs Craigie (Frances Wilson widow of Captain Henry Wilson-RIP)
1878 - 1879 Mrs Nesbitt
1880 - 1881 William Henry Rynd
1882 Henry Rynd
1883 Mrs Rynd
1884 - 1885 Vacant
1886 - 1888 James Morell
1889 - 1898 William Hickey (House now called Ardmore)
1899 - 1912 Thomas J Farley
1912 - 1914 Anna Mary Farley
1919 Sold for 2.5K
1921 - 1954 Isidore Joseph Healy
1960 Plans to develop Ardmore House and the Tram Sheds as a Renault Garage
1973 - 2007 Europa Mazda Centre
2015 Site sold for €7.5 million.
2022 Planning permission granted for apartments
STAFF
1901 Mary Casey - Cook
Mary Healy - parlourmaid
1911 Emily Murphy - Parlourmaid
Margaret Cagne - Cook
Marcella Byrne - Housemaid
CURRENT STATUS Demolished 1960
CONTRIBUTORS © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE November 2019
NAME The Dove House/Dove House/Ardmore/Europa Cars
AREA Newtown Avenue, opposite Seapoint Avenue
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1837- 1842 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of Blackrock
and it is annotated as Dove House and Ardmore respectively. It appears on
Rocques (1760) and Taylors map (1816) but is not named.
GENERAL A Georgian eight roomed non-basement residence. The house was to let
in 1829 and was described as 'built in the best manner with coach house, stable and neat
garden'. By 1889 the house was called Ardmore. In 1912 part of the grounds were acquired by
the Blackrock Township for social housing and road widening. In 1919 it was for sale with 4
reception rooms, 7 bedrooms and a motor house, tennis court and pleasure gardens. In 1947
Dun Laoghaire fire brigade were called to the premises to extinguish the roof which had caught fire.
YEAR BUILT circa 1760
VALUATION In 1867 the valuation was 34 pounds.
NUMBER OF
ROOMS Noted as having 16 rooms occupied by family in 1901.
ARCHITECT Unknown
SOURCES Thom's, contemporaneous newspapers, OSI Maps, Registry of Deeds,
NAI Census & Wills and Griffiths Valuation.
OCCUPANTS
Site owned by George Burroughs and house owned by Lord Cloncurry in 1827.
1827 -1836 Lyster Family
1837 Burroughs to Mahony 1837 17 111 442
1841 - 1845 William Thomas Mulvany
1846 - 1848 Daniel Hodgens
1849 - 1950 Mrs O' Donoghue
1853 Auction of Contents (8 rooms)
1857 - 1867 Miss Scavory
1868 - 1873 Rev Ambrose Lane
1874 George Nesbitt
1876 Vacant
1876 - 1877 Mrs Craigie (Frances Wilson widow of Captain Henry Wilson-RIP)
1878 - 1879 Mrs Nesbitt
1880 - 1881 William Henry Rynd
1882 Henry Rynd
1883 Mrs Rynd
1884 - 1885 Vacant
1886 - 1888 James Morell
1889 - 1898 William Hickey (House now called Ardmore)
1899 - 1912 Thomas J Farley
1912 - 1914 Anna Mary Farley
1919 Sold for 2.5K
1921 - 1954 Isidore Joseph Healy
1960 Plans to develop Ardmore House and the Tram Sheds as a Renault Garage
1973 - 2007 Europa Mazda Centre
2015 Site sold for €7.5 million.
2022 Planning permission granted for apartments
STAFF
1901 Mary Casey - Cook
Mary Healy - parlourmaid
1911 Emily Murphy - Parlourmaid
Margaret Cagne - Cook
Marcella Byrne - Housemaid
CURRENT STATUS Demolished 1960
CONTRIBUTORS © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE November 2019