Dublin Bay, from Stillorgan Road -Engraving by F Jukes 1799
Grove House
NAME Grove House/Grove Lodge
AREA LOCATION Corner of Stillorgan Park and Grove Avenue
MAP LOCATION OSI map of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of Stillorgan
Grove. It is unnamed and annotated at Grove House respectively.
GENERAL The site for this was carved out of The Priory lands and it was described as
'painted light sky blue, two storied with large trees in the grounds, a curved drive and a small field
behind railings' in the 1950's. In 1903 the household furniture was for sale.
YEAR BUILT circa 1780
VALUATION In 1892 the valuation was 29 pounds.
NUMBER OF
ROOMS On the 1901 census it is noted as having 14 rooms occupied by family.
ARCHITECT Unknown
SOURCES Thom’s directories, contemporaneous newspapers, Registry of Deeds,
OSI Maps and NAI Census & Wills & the Rev R Marshall.
OCCUPANTS
1836 To be let
1849 House for Sale with 13 Acres
1860 Thomas Crookshank and some of the land sold for building of Oriel
1875 - 1877 John Creed
1880 - 1881 John Copley Singleton
1883 - 1885 Richard Atwell
1885 - 1901 Sydney Stokes
1908 - 1914 Frederick Joy & R Cecil Joy
1914 Robert Cecil Joy
1918 - 1927 Richard Coulson
1927 - 1935 Mrs Marian Coulson
1939 - 1957 Mr and Mrs Louis C Fleury
1960's Joseph & Elizabeth Hackett
1988 Permission for development by White Park Construction
STAFF
1884 Mrs Atwell - Housekeeper
CURRENT
STATUS No longer extant
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE March 2019