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New Park
NAME New Park
AREA LOCATION Corner of Stillorgan Road and Newtownpark Avenue at entrance to Selandia.
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of
Newpark and it is annotated as New Park on both.
GENERAL House originally purchased for £8000 circa 1800. In 1813 it was for sale and it
was described as having a handsome dining room and withdrawing room, a library and also a
gentleman's own room. It had five bedrooms and a dressing room also having a housekeepers room
and ample accommodation for servants. It had stabling, coach-house, peach and grape houses and
a new green house had just been built close to the house.
In 1854 the house was described as being a short distance from Belmont set on 47 acres. It had
coach-houses and stabling, a dairy and laundry. It also had a walled garden, green houses and a
grapery. During the tenure of Carter, an avenue was built from the house to Newtown Park Avenue
with a gatelodge and a gated entrance (now the entrance to a house called Selandia). It also had a
shared gatelodge on the Stillorgan Road. The gates are cast-iron with granite plinths supporting
cast-iron double gates with granite outer piers on cut-granite plinths supporting cast iron railings
with two lanterns and are still extant.
YEAR BUILT circa 1800
ARCHITECT Unknown
SOURCES Thom’s directories, OSI maps, Griffith's Valuation, NAI Census & Wills,
contemporaneous newspapers, Griffith's Valuation and Registry of Deeds.
OCCUPANTS
1783 - 1813 Alexander Crookshank
1813 - 1822 Thomas Christmas
1822 - 1825 To Let
1825 - 1853 Willoughby Harcourt Carter
1858 - 1869 John Thomas Rossborough Colclough
1875 - 1910 Hedges Eyre Chatterton
1910 - 1915 The 2nd Mrs Chatterton
1938 Georgian style house built on the site
1953 For sale on 1.25 acres along with a gatelodge converted into 3 apartments.
STAFF
1875 Robert Sherry - Footman
1890 Mr Thompson - Gardener
1901 John Barry - Coachman
James Murray - Butler
Albert Kemp - Footman
Elizabeth Mason - Cook
Maria Adeline Kelly - Housemaid
Elizabeth Harris - Lady's maid
Bridget Walsh - Kitchenmaid
CURRENT No Longer extant
STATUS
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE August 2019
AREA LOCATION Corner of Stillorgan Road and Newtownpark Avenue at entrance to Selandia.
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of
Newpark and it is annotated as New Park on both.
GENERAL House originally purchased for £8000 circa 1800. In 1813 it was for sale and it
was described as having a handsome dining room and withdrawing room, a library and also a
gentleman's own room. It had five bedrooms and a dressing room also having a housekeepers room
and ample accommodation for servants. It had stabling, coach-house, peach and grape houses and
a new green house had just been built close to the house.
In 1854 the house was described as being a short distance from Belmont set on 47 acres. It had
coach-houses and stabling, a dairy and laundry. It also had a walled garden, green houses and a
grapery. During the tenure of Carter, an avenue was built from the house to Newtown Park Avenue
with a gatelodge and a gated entrance (now the entrance to a house called Selandia). It also had a
shared gatelodge on the Stillorgan Road. The gates are cast-iron with granite plinths supporting
cast-iron double gates with granite outer piers on cut-granite plinths supporting cast iron railings
with two lanterns and are still extant.
YEAR BUILT circa 1800
ARCHITECT Unknown
SOURCES Thom’s directories, OSI maps, Griffith's Valuation, NAI Census & Wills,
contemporaneous newspapers, Griffith's Valuation and Registry of Deeds.
OCCUPANTS
1783 - 1813 Alexander Crookshank
1813 - 1822 Thomas Christmas
1822 - 1825 To Let
1825 - 1853 Willoughby Harcourt Carter
1858 - 1869 John Thomas Rossborough Colclough
1875 - 1910 Hedges Eyre Chatterton
1910 - 1915 The 2nd Mrs Chatterton
1938 Georgian style house built on the site
1953 For sale on 1.25 acres along with a gatelodge converted into 3 apartments.
STAFF
1875 Robert Sherry - Footman
1890 Mr Thompson - Gardener
1901 John Barry - Coachman
James Murray - Butler
Albert Kemp - Footman
Elizabeth Mason - Cook
Maria Adeline Kelly - Housemaid
Elizabeth Harris - Lady's maid
Bridget Walsh - Kitchenmaid
CURRENT No Longer extant
STATUS
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE August 2019