St Helen's
NAME Seamount/St Helen's/The Radisson
AREA LOCATION Stillorgan dual carriage way facing Foster's Avenue
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of
Booterstwn and it is annotated as St Helen's on both. It is on
Duncan's 1821 map and Taylors map of 1816 and Rocques's map
annotated as Seamount.
GENERAL A listed two storey, five bay classical house with a centre pediment
carried on coupled Corinthian pilasters and lower wings, which are single-storey on one
side and two-storey on the other. It has a cladding of Portland stone and a glass
conservatory with curved roof. The fourth gatelodge was shared with San Souci. The
garden is thought to have been originally designed by Nivian Nevin, the Victorian age
landscaper.
YEAR BUILT 1750
VALUATION
ARCHITECT Unknown
SOURCES Thom’s directories, OSI maps, NAI Census & Wills Registry of
Deeds and contemporaneous newspapers.
OCCUPANTS
1750 - 1754 Thomas Cooley - Barrister/MP for Duleek
1790 - 1819 Robert Alexander, JP, High Sherriff of Dublin, church warden of SS Philip & James
1805 (Seamount-1805) Wilsons
1824 Chief Justice Dogherty
1829 Mrs Wall/Dara Quinn
1830 Rt Hon John Doherty (relative of Mrs. Wall)
1840 - 1851 Lieut. Col. Henry White (said to have changed name to St Helen after his wife Ellen?)
1851 Sir Hugh Gough renamed St Helens
1869 - 1899 Lord Viscount Gough
1899 - 1918 Sir John Gardiner Nutting (house altered)
1918 - 1922 Harold Nutting
1922 - 1925 Thomas Armstrong
1925 - 1988 Irish Christian Brothers
1988 Phoenix Properties
1989 British Developers
1989 Berland Ltd
1997 The Cosgrave Group purchase for 2 Million to build a hotel
STAFF
CURRENT
STATUS Extant
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE April 2018
AREA LOCATION Stillorgan dual carriage way facing Foster's Avenue
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of
Booterstwn and it is annotated as St Helen's on both. It is on
Duncan's 1821 map and Taylors map of 1816 and Rocques's map
annotated as Seamount.
GENERAL A listed two storey, five bay classical house with a centre pediment
carried on coupled Corinthian pilasters and lower wings, which are single-storey on one
side and two-storey on the other. It has a cladding of Portland stone and a glass
conservatory with curved roof. The fourth gatelodge was shared with San Souci. The
garden is thought to have been originally designed by Nivian Nevin, the Victorian age
landscaper.
YEAR BUILT 1750
VALUATION
ARCHITECT Unknown
SOURCES Thom’s directories, OSI maps, NAI Census & Wills Registry of
Deeds and contemporaneous newspapers.
OCCUPANTS
1750 - 1754 Thomas Cooley - Barrister/MP for Duleek
1790 - 1819 Robert Alexander, JP, High Sherriff of Dublin, church warden of SS Philip & James
1805 (Seamount-1805) Wilsons
1824 Chief Justice Dogherty
1829 Mrs Wall/Dara Quinn
1830 Rt Hon John Doherty (relative of Mrs. Wall)
1840 - 1851 Lieut. Col. Henry White (said to have changed name to St Helen after his wife Ellen?)
1851 Sir Hugh Gough renamed St Helens
1869 - 1899 Lord Viscount Gough
1899 - 1918 Sir John Gardiner Nutting (house altered)
1918 - 1922 Harold Nutting
1922 - 1925 Thomas Armstrong
1925 - 1988 Irish Christian Brothers
1988 Phoenix Properties
1989 British Developers
1989 Berland Ltd
1997 The Cosgrave Group purchase for 2 Million to build a hotel
STAFF
CURRENT
STATUS Extant
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE April 2018