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.
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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.
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 - 1862 James H Ferguson Esq.
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.
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 - 1862 James H Ferguson Esq.
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