Mount Dillon
NAME Mount Dillon/Mount Carmel Convent
AREA LOCATION Carmelite Convent, Roebuck Road
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of Roebuck and it
is annotated as Mount Dillon and Mount Carmel Convent respectively.
GENERAL ‘There is a dwelling house two stories high consisting of parlour, drawing room,
breakfast parlour, four bedrooms, with basement story, stabling for eight horses, coach house and yard,
walled garden, turret and green house and ornamental plantations.’ (Brassington 1832). The land was
in the ownership of the Dillon/Southwell family until the late 1850s and was to let/for sale on 24 acres in
paddocks in 1836/7. For sale again on 27 acres in 1875/8. Today the site holds Mount Carmel Community
Hospital, the Islamic Centre and St Killian's German School.
YEAR BUILT circa 1778
VALUATION In 1899 the valuation was 170 pounds and in the 1911 census it is noted as
having 24 rooms occupied by family.
ARCHITECT Unknown
SOURCES Thom's, contemporaneous newspapers, NAI Census & Wills, OSI Maps, South
Dublin Historical Mapping.
OCCUPANTS
1783 Land of Roebuck leased to McDaniel
1788 Marcella Dillon, relict of Thomas Dillon
1878 - 1828 Thomas Dillon
1828 - 1835 Rev John Prior
1835 Thomas Young Prior
1835 - 1839 Rev Dr Thomas Prior
1840 - 1849 Arthur Francis Southwell
1850 - 1856 Captain George Daniell
1859 - 1868 John Davis Garde
1868 - 1872 Sir Arthur Augustus Thurlow Cunynghame
1873 - 1875 Lord Ventry
1875 - 1878 For sale on 27 acres
1878 Mount Carmel Convent
Staff
1872 James Leonard & Rose Smith (marriage)
1877 John McDonald & Maria Murphy (Daughter born)
1901 Charlotte Dunne - Prioress
CURRENT
STATUS
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE November 2019
AREA LOCATION Carmelite Convent, Roebuck Road
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of Roebuck and it
is annotated as Mount Dillon and Mount Carmel Convent respectively.
GENERAL ‘There is a dwelling house two stories high consisting of parlour, drawing room,
breakfast parlour, four bedrooms, with basement story, stabling for eight horses, coach house and yard,
walled garden, turret and green house and ornamental plantations.’ (Brassington 1832). The land was
in the ownership of the Dillon/Southwell family until the late 1850s and was to let/for sale on 24 acres in
paddocks in 1836/7. For sale again on 27 acres in 1875/8. Today the site holds Mount Carmel Community
Hospital, the Islamic Centre and St Killian's German School.
YEAR BUILT circa 1778
VALUATION In 1899 the valuation was 170 pounds and in the 1911 census it is noted as
having 24 rooms occupied by family.
ARCHITECT Unknown
SOURCES Thom's, contemporaneous newspapers, NAI Census & Wills, OSI Maps, South
Dublin Historical Mapping.
OCCUPANTS
1783 Land of Roebuck leased to McDaniel
1788 Marcella Dillon, relict of Thomas Dillon
1878 - 1828 Thomas Dillon
1828 - 1835 Rev John Prior
1835 Thomas Young Prior
1835 - 1839 Rev Dr Thomas Prior
1840 - 1849 Arthur Francis Southwell
1850 - 1856 Captain George Daniell
1859 - 1868 John Davis Garde
1868 - 1872 Sir Arthur Augustus Thurlow Cunynghame
1873 - 1875 Lord Ventry
1875 - 1878 For sale on 27 acres
1878 Mount Carmel Convent
Staff
1872 James Leonard & Rose Smith (marriage)
1877 John McDonald & Maria Murphy (Daughter born)
1901 Charlotte Dunne - Prioress
CURRENT
STATUS
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE November 2019