Montpelier Manor
NAME Montpelier Manor
AREA LOCATION Monkstown Road, junction of Montpelier Manor estate.
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1838 - 1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of
Montpelier and it is annotated as Mont Pelier Cottage and Montpelier Manor.
GENERAL A fashionable residence on 2 acres built in the Elizabethan & Tudor Style possibly
on the site of an older house named Mont Pelier Cottage. It had seven bedrooms and five reception
rooms with servants apartments. Its front entrance was on the Bray Road opposite Newtown Park and
the back entrance was on Monkstown Road near Temple Hill and was probably split circa 1930.
YEAR BUILT circa 1853
VALUATION In 1921 the valuation was £73 and in the 1901 census it is noted that there were 15
rooms occupied by family.
ARCHITECT Unknown but builder is possibly Hugh Kelly of 164 Great Brunswick Street.
SOURCES Thom’s directories, OSI maps, NAI Census & Wills and contemporaneous
newspapers.
OCCUPANTS
1847 - 1849 Captain Robert Jackson of Montpelier cottage
1854 - 1855 Hugh Kelly, owner with a caretaker in residence.
1857 - 1886 James Harrison
1895 - 1899 Walter Conan
1900 Mrs Alexander Wilson Allan
1901 - 1919 Mrs Sophie M Allan
1921 - 1941 Albert D Mitchell
1919 Rev Thomas G Fitzgerald
1938 - 1941 Professor Desmond Fitzgerald, Senator
1951 Nora Fitzgerald/ Kathleen O'Rourke - Dublin Remedial Clinic for the treatment of infantile paralysis
1955 C G Mitchell
1956 - 1958 Mrs N M McCormack
1962 For sale on 1.5 acres advertised as suitable for development.
1967 3 Houses built on the site
STAFF
1901 John O'Brien - Gardener
Sarah Cullen - Housemaid
Lizzie Ross - Cook
1911 May McCarthy - Cook
Jane Thompson - Parlourmaid
Mary Carrol - Housemaid
William Mathews - Gardener
CURRENT
STATUS No longer extant
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE April 2020
AREA LOCATION Monkstown Road, junction of Montpelier Manor estate.
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1838 - 1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of
Montpelier and it is annotated as Mont Pelier Cottage and Montpelier Manor.
GENERAL A fashionable residence on 2 acres built in the Elizabethan & Tudor Style possibly
on the site of an older house named Mont Pelier Cottage. It had seven bedrooms and five reception
rooms with servants apartments. Its front entrance was on the Bray Road opposite Newtown Park and
the back entrance was on Monkstown Road near Temple Hill and was probably split circa 1930.
YEAR BUILT circa 1853
VALUATION In 1921 the valuation was £73 and in the 1901 census it is noted that there were 15
rooms occupied by family.
ARCHITECT Unknown but builder is possibly Hugh Kelly of 164 Great Brunswick Street.
SOURCES Thom’s directories, OSI maps, NAI Census & Wills and contemporaneous
newspapers.
OCCUPANTS
1847 - 1849 Captain Robert Jackson of Montpelier cottage
1854 - 1855 Hugh Kelly, owner with a caretaker in residence.
1857 - 1886 James Harrison
1895 - 1899 Walter Conan
1900 Mrs Alexander Wilson Allan
1901 - 1919 Mrs Sophie M Allan
1921 - 1941 Albert D Mitchell
1919 Rev Thomas G Fitzgerald
1938 - 1941 Professor Desmond Fitzgerald, Senator
1951 Nora Fitzgerald/ Kathleen O'Rourke - Dublin Remedial Clinic for the treatment of infantile paralysis
1955 C G Mitchell
1956 - 1958 Mrs N M McCormack
1962 For sale on 1.5 acres advertised as suitable for development.
1967 3 Houses built on the site
STAFF
1901 John O'Brien - Gardener
Sarah Cullen - Housemaid
Lizzie Ross - Cook
1911 May McCarthy - Cook
Jane Thompson - Parlourmaid
Mary Carrol - Housemaid
William Mathews - Gardener
CURRENT
STATUS No longer extant
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE April 2020