Loyola                 

NAME                            Ardilea/Loyola                                    

AREA LOCATION         Bray Road, backing on to Granville Road, off Newtownpark Avenue. 
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MAP LOCATION          OSI map of 1898-1913 place it in the townland of Newpark and it is annotated as Ardilea.
                                     
GENERAL                      Detached 6 bedroom house with 3 reception rooms on 2.5 acres in 1963.  It had a
vegetable garden and lawn tennis court. Out offices included garaging for three cars, a summer house, hen
house and garden sheds.         

YEAR BUILT                  circa 1927     
 
VALUATION                 In 1935 the valuation was 95 pounds
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ARCHITECT                   Unknown           
 
SOURCES                       Thom's, contemporaneous newspapers, NAI Census and OSI Maps.
  
OCCUPANTS
1900 -1912                     The Golf Grounds - J Farrelly
1930 -1947                     Thomas Hardway Downey, JP
1947 - 1963                    Herbert J W Downey
1963                                For sale on 2.5 acres
1980's                             Bought by the Russian Embassy
2010 - 2022                    Russian Trade Representation in Ireland

                
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STATUS                         Extant

CONTRIBUTOR          ©​ June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE                             June 2022