Hollyville
NAME Hollyville/Hollyville School/Holly Park/Holly Park School
AREA LOCATION New Grange road off Newtownpark Avenue.
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of Newpark
and it is annotated as Hollyville and Hollyville Park respectively. It also
appears on Taylors map of 1816 as Hollyville.
GENERAL Five bay square house on 22 acres with a long carriage avenue. Chimneys on either
side. Flight of steps to wooden covered veranda with return to rhs. In 1854 it was for sale with 8
bedrooms, 4 reception rooms with servants quarters, green houses, out offices and stabling on 7 acres.
It's entrance pillars survive with “The Orchard” on a granite plaque. Its gatelodge no longer survives. The
house was owned by the Richardson family from 1807 to 1867 but it was rented out for much of this time.
YEAR BUILT 1800
VALUATION The valuation in 1910 was £110 and in the 1901 census it is noted as having 12
rooms occupied by family.
ARCHITECT Unknown
SOURCES Thom’s directories, contemporaneous newspapers, NAI Census & Wills
Griffith's Valuation and OSI Maps.
OCCUPANTS
1806 - 1808 William Richardson
1808 - 1811 Mrs Susanna Richardson
1808 - 1832 To Let
1822 Willoughy Harcourt Carter
1837 J B Stopford
1841 Mrs Doyne
1842 Mrs Foote
1843 - 1849 Valentine O'Brien O'Connor
1855 - 1859 Jones of Hollyville Park school
1866 - 1867 William Henry Richardson
1867 - 1884 Misses Richardson
1889 - 1899 Edmund Sanders Darley
1900 - 1911 Mrs Tootle Broadhurst
1913 - 1935 William Sealy Gossett
1938 - 1945 Thomas Baron Jobson
1946 - 1965 Ninian Falkiner
1966 Demolished to make way for Holly Park School
STAFF
1811 Thomas Doghery - Gardener of 5 Gardiner's Row, Williamstown.
1849 James Cullen - Gatekeeper
1895 Peter Rooney - Coachman
1896 - 1906 James Hill - Coachman living at the gatelodge
1901 Margaret Munro - Ladys maid
Mary Wilson - Ladys maid
Elizabeth Kittenan - Ladys maid
Charlotte Mills - Parlour maid
Charlotte Welch - Kitchen maid
Harriet Magee - Cook
William Black - Groom
Mary J Leyburne - Housemaid
1911 Fanny Marion Thompson - Maid
Margaret Paton - Maid
Mary Coyne - Maid
Fanny Alcorn - Housemaid
1911 -1912 Emily Mainwaring - Cook (RIP)
CURRENT
STATUS No longer extant
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE January 2020
AREA LOCATION New Grange road off Newtownpark Avenue.
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of Newpark
and it is annotated as Hollyville and Hollyville Park respectively. It also
appears on Taylors map of 1816 as Hollyville.
GENERAL Five bay square house on 22 acres with a long carriage avenue. Chimneys on either
side. Flight of steps to wooden covered veranda with return to rhs. In 1854 it was for sale with 8
bedrooms, 4 reception rooms with servants quarters, green houses, out offices and stabling on 7 acres.
It's entrance pillars survive with “The Orchard” on a granite plaque. Its gatelodge no longer survives. The
house was owned by the Richardson family from 1807 to 1867 but it was rented out for much of this time.
YEAR BUILT 1800
VALUATION The valuation in 1910 was £110 and in the 1901 census it is noted as having 12
rooms occupied by family.
ARCHITECT Unknown
SOURCES Thom’s directories, contemporaneous newspapers, NAI Census & Wills
Griffith's Valuation and OSI Maps.
OCCUPANTS
1806 - 1808 William Richardson
1808 - 1811 Mrs Susanna Richardson
1808 - 1832 To Let
1822 Willoughy Harcourt Carter
1837 J B Stopford
1841 Mrs Doyne
1842 Mrs Foote
1843 - 1849 Valentine O'Brien O'Connor
1855 - 1859 Jones of Hollyville Park school
1866 - 1867 William Henry Richardson
1867 - 1884 Misses Richardson
1889 - 1899 Edmund Sanders Darley
1900 - 1911 Mrs Tootle Broadhurst
1913 - 1935 William Sealy Gossett
1938 - 1945 Thomas Baron Jobson
1946 - 1965 Ninian Falkiner
1966 Demolished to make way for Holly Park School
STAFF
1811 Thomas Doghery - Gardener of 5 Gardiner's Row, Williamstown.
1849 James Cullen - Gatekeeper
1895 Peter Rooney - Coachman
1896 - 1906 James Hill - Coachman living at the gatelodge
1901 Margaret Munro - Ladys maid
Mary Wilson - Ladys maid
Elizabeth Kittenan - Ladys maid
Charlotte Mills - Parlour maid
Charlotte Welch - Kitchen maid
Harriet Magee - Cook
William Black - Groom
Mary J Leyburne - Housemaid
1911 Fanny Marion Thompson - Maid
Margaret Paton - Maid
Mary Coyne - Maid
Fanny Alcorn - Housemaid
1911 -1912 Emily Mainwaring - Cook (RIP)
CURRENT
STATUS No longer extant
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE January 2020