Nahant
NAME Nahant/Anchor Bridge
AREA LOCATION 15 Avoca Avenue
MAP LOCATION OSI map of 1898-1913 place it in the townland of Stillorgan Grove
and it is annotated as Nahant.
GENERAL A semi detached Victorian house called Nahant (named after a town
in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States where its first occupants lived). The name was
changed to Anchor Bridge between 1956 and 1978.
YEAR BUILT circa 1863
VALUATION In 1887 the valuation was 45 pounds and in the 1911 census it is
noted as having 10 rooms occupied by the family.
ARCHITECT Unknown
SOURCES Thom’s directories, contemporaneous newspapers, NAI Census &
Wills, and OSI Maps
OCCUPANTS
1864 - 1866 John Burke
1867 - 1878 Carter Draper
1867 - 1894 Eleanor Draper
1887 - 1895 Ellen Hanlon
1894 - 1895 George Hanlon
1896 Vacant
1897 To Let
1898 - 1899 E F Batty, JP, barrister
1900 Vacant
1901 Vacant and to let by C Draper
1910 - 1932 William Henry Woods
1932 - 1937 Lydia Woods
1937 - 1946 Robert Francis Woods
1947 Furniture auction
1953 Mrs Helen Carroll - Nahant
1956 Christopher Carroll - Nahant
1997 Anchor Bridge sold for 650K
STAFF
1911 Kate Reilly - Domestic servant
CURRENT Extant and a protected structure
STATUS
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE March 2026
AREA LOCATION 15 Avoca Avenue
MAP LOCATION OSI map of 1898-1913 place it in the townland of Stillorgan Grove
and it is annotated as Nahant.
GENERAL A semi detached Victorian house called Nahant (named after a town
in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States where its first occupants lived). The name was
changed to Anchor Bridge between 1956 and 1978.
YEAR BUILT circa 1863
VALUATION In 1887 the valuation was 45 pounds and in the 1911 census it is
noted as having 10 rooms occupied by the family.
ARCHITECT Unknown
SOURCES Thom’s directories, contemporaneous newspapers, NAI Census &
Wills, and OSI Maps
OCCUPANTS
1864 - 1866 John Burke
1867 - 1878 Carter Draper
1867 - 1894 Eleanor Draper
1887 - 1895 Ellen Hanlon
1894 - 1895 George Hanlon
1896 Vacant
1897 To Let
1898 - 1899 E F Batty, JP, barrister
1900 Vacant
1901 Vacant and to let by C Draper
1910 - 1932 William Henry Woods
1932 - 1937 Lydia Woods
1937 - 1946 Robert Francis Woods
1947 Furniture auction
1953 Mrs Helen Carroll - Nahant
1956 Christopher Carroll - Nahant
1997 Anchor Bridge sold for 650K
STAFF
1911 Kate Reilly - Domestic servant
CURRENT Extant and a protected structure
STATUS
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE March 2026