Photograph of the gate to Merville - December 1978 courtesy of Nollaig.
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Photograph of the gate to Merville - December 1978 courtesy of Nollaig Bonar.
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Merville
NAME Merville
AREA LOCATION STILLORGAN, entrance on Brewery Road close to Waltersland and Clonmore.
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of
Mulchanstown and it is annotated as Merville on both.
GENERAL Small demesne with good gardens and a beautiful greenhouse and
gatelodge. Its location was described as 'second gate above the Brewery on the Leopardstown
Road' in 1852. In the early 1800's it was a 150 acre farm. By 1915 it was on 41 acres and the
tenant paid £127 per annum. The residence was described as substantial with 7 rooms as well as
basement apartments. It had extensive outbuilding including accommodation for 24 cows and
stabling for 6 horses. Also on the property were two lodges which were rented out at 3s per week.
YEAR BUILT c1800
VALUATION In 1912 the valuation was 40 pounds and in the 1911 census it is noted as
having 7 rooms occupied by family.
ARCHITECT Unknown
SOURCES Thom’s directories, Archer's Statistical Survey of County Dublin,
contemporaneous Newspapers, OSI Maps and NAI Census & Wills.
OCCUPANTS
1801 Richard Bolton
1802 Gerald O'Farrell
1808 - 1828 Miss Bolton
1802 - 1832 Mrs O’Farrell
1830 Miss Lalor
1837 - 1856 William James McCausland
1858 - 1864 James Henry Ferguson
1866 - 1873 Sir Richard Bolton McCausland
1875 - 1884 Samuel Jolley, farmer
1885 - 1899 Edward Jolly, farmer & Dairyman
1893 Contents and lease sold
1900 - 1947 Samuel Jolly
1950 Vacant
1949-51 Merville estate built
STAFF
1795 - 1815 Patrick Bryan - Labourer
1870 Edward Darcy - Servant
1937 Daniel James Cunningham
CURRENT
STATUS No Longer extant
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE July 2018
AREA LOCATION STILLORGAN, entrance on Brewery Road close to Waltersland and Clonmore.
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of
Mulchanstown and it is annotated as Merville on both.
GENERAL Small demesne with good gardens and a beautiful greenhouse and
gatelodge. Its location was described as 'second gate above the Brewery on the Leopardstown
Road' in 1852. In the early 1800's it was a 150 acre farm. By 1915 it was on 41 acres and the
tenant paid £127 per annum. The residence was described as substantial with 7 rooms as well as
basement apartments. It had extensive outbuilding including accommodation for 24 cows and
stabling for 6 horses. Also on the property were two lodges which were rented out at 3s per week.
YEAR BUILT c1800
VALUATION In 1912 the valuation was 40 pounds and in the 1911 census it is noted as
having 7 rooms occupied by family.
ARCHITECT Unknown
SOURCES Thom’s directories, Archer's Statistical Survey of County Dublin,
contemporaneous Newspapers, OSI Maps and NAI Census & Wills.
OCCUPANTS
1801 Richard Bolton
1802 Gerald O'Farrell
1808 - 1828 Miss Bolton
1802 - 1832 Mrs O’Farrell
1830 Miss Lalor
1837 - 1856 William James McCausland
1858 - 1864 James Henry Ferguson
1866 - 1873 Sir Richard Bolton McCausland
1875 - 1884 Samuel Jolley, farmer
1885 - 1899 Edward Jolly, farmer & Dairyman
1893 Contents and lease sold
1900 - 1947 Samuel Jolly
1950 Vacant
1949-51 Merville estate built
STAFF
1795 - 1815 Patrick Bryan - Labourer
1870 Edward Darcy - Servant
1937 Daniel James Cunningham
CURRENT
STATUS No Longer extant
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE July 2018