Elms, Mount Merrion Avenue 1950s courtesy of the McGonigal family.
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Elms, Mount Merrion Avenue 1950s courtesy of the McGonigal family.
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The Elms/Elms
NAME Rockville/The Elms
AREA LOCATION 46 Mount Merrion Avenue adjoining Marino Park.
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of
Blackrock and it is annotated as Rockville and The Elms respectively.
GENERAL Two storey non basement on Mount Merrion Avenue. It had a gate
lodge and a gardener's cottage. For sale in 1950 on 6.5 acres and with 720 foot frontage to
Mount Merrion Avenue approached by a gravel drive. The furniture was put up for sale in 1951.
In the 1940s Hyde Park Avenue was built and in the 1950s Hyde Park Gardens was built.
'The Blackalls of Marino Park were very friendly with The O'Connor Don and his family whose son lived
at the Elms. Although there was a bridge linking the two properties, such were the conventions of the
time that when the Blackalls went to dinner at The Elms they were chauffeur driven down the avenue
of Marino Park to the road, then a sharp turn up the avenue to the Elms.' William Blackall
YEAR BUILT circa 1830
VALUATION In 1894 the valuation was 92 pounds.
NUMBER
OF ROOMS In the 1901 census it is noted as having 15 rooms occupied by 5 people.
ARCHITECT Unknown.
SOURCES Thom’s directories, contemporaneous newspapers,
NAI Census & Wills and OSI Maps
OCCUPANTS
1819 - 1824 Robert Roe
1833 - 1843 Charles Hopes
1843 - 1850 John Vance
1844 Michael Theobald Langton
1852 - 1853 Mrs Tipping
1854 - 1855 Richard D Farran
1858 - 1864 Charles Hopes
1861 W Colgan
1862 - 1865 Rev Hope M Waddell
1866 - 1894 William Williamson
1896 - 1900 William Hewat
1901 - 1909 Eliza Lambe Hewat
1910 - 1919 Rt Hon Judge James Owen Wylie
1921 - 1931 Charles Hugh O'Connor
1932 - 1935 Mrs Wilhelmina Ruth Colin-Smith
1936 - 1949 Rev William Brown Allman
1951 - 1953 Fitzgerald family
1974 Messrs Clegg Duggan Associates - Planning application to erect
152 flats in nine - four and five-storey blocks at The Elms
1990 John McDonald - Developer
STAFF
1901 Mary Malony - Cook
Kate Shiel - Domestic Servant
Rodolphus Simpson - Coachman living at gatelodge
Thomas Shield - Gardener living at cottage
1911 John Keane - Butler living at Gatelodge
Annie Stone? - Cook
Elizabeth Jones - Parlourmaid
Ellen Power - Housemaid
CURRENT
STATUS No longer extant
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE November 2020
NAME Rockville/The Elms
AREA LOCATION 46 Mount Merrion Avenue adjoining Marino Park.
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of
Blackrock and it is annotated as Rockville and The Elms respectively.
GENERAL Two storey non basement on Mount Merrion Avenue. It had a gate
lodge and a gardener's cottage. For sale in 1950 on 6.5 acres and with 720 foot frontage to
Mount Merrion Avenue approached by a gravel drive. The furniture was put up for sale in 1951.
In the 1940s Hyde Park Avenue was built and in the 1950s Hyde Park Gardens was built.
'The Blackalls of Marino Park were very friendly with The O'Connor Don and his family whose son lived
at the Elms. Although there was a bridge linking the two properties, such were the conventions of the
time that when the Blackalls went to dinner at The Elms they were chauffeur driven down the avenue
of Marino Park to the road, then a sharp turn up the avenue to the Elms.' William Blackall
YEAR BUILT circa 1830
VALUATION In 1894 the valuation was 92 pounds.
NUMBER
OF ROOMS In the 1901 census it is noted as having 15 rooms occupied by 5 people.
ARCHITECT Unknown.
SOURCES Thom’s directories, contemporaneous newspapers,
NAI Census & Wills and OSI Maps
OCCUPANTS
1819 - 1824 Robert Roe
1833 - 1843 Charles Hopes
1843 - 1850 John Vance
1844 Michael Theobald Langton
1852 - 1853 Mrs Tipping
1854 - 1855 Richard D Farran
1858 - 1864 Charles Hopes
1861 W Colgan
1862 - 1865 Rev Hope M Waddell
1866 - 1894 William Williamson
1896 - 1900 William Hewat
1901 - 1909 Eliza Lambe Hewat
1910 - 1919 Rt Hon Judge James Owen Wylie
1921 - 1931 Charles Hugh O'Connor
1932 - 1935 Mrs Wilhelmina Ruth Colin-Smith
1936 - 1949 Rev William Brown Allman
1951 - 1953 Fitzgerald family
1974 Messrs Clegg Duggan Associates - Planning application to erect
152 flats in nine - four and five-storey blocks at The Elms
1990 John McDonald - Developer
STAFF
1901 Mary Malony - Cook
Kate Shiel - Domestic Servant
Rodolphus Simpson - Coachman living at gatelodge
Thomas Shield - Gardener living at cottage
1911 John Keane - Butler living at Gatelodge
Annie Stone? - Cook
Elizabeth Jones - Parlourmaid
Ellen Power - Housemaid
CURRENT
STATUS No longer extant
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE November 2020