Oakley Park 1961

                                                          Oakley Park


NAME                        Oakley Lodge/Oakley Park/Oakley Park House

AREA LOCATION    Carysfort Avenue, Blackrock.  Adjacent to All Saint's Church with a gatelodge on
                                   Carysfort Avenue.
 
MAP LOCATION     OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of Stillorgan Park
                                   and is annotated as Oakley Park on both maps.  In 1815 it was called Oakley Lodge
​                                   and by 1821 it was known as Oakley Park.
 
GENERAL                 Detached period freehold residence set on 20 acres with a walled garden/nursery.
The park was home to Idronian's hockey grounds and also the grounds for Collegnes from 1902 to 1906.
The site was split and the house was for sale in 1961.  It was described as an imposing period residence
well set back from the road.  It had seven bedrooms and three reception rooms.

YEAR BUILT             circa 1780
 
VALUATION             In 1912 the valuation was 100 pounds and in the 1911 census it is noted as having
                                   9 rooms occupied by the family.
 
ARCHITECT              unknown 
 
SOURCES                  Thom’s directories, contemporaneous newspapers, Griffith's Valuation, NAI Census
                                    and Wills & OSI Maps.
  
OCCUPANTS
1815                          For Sale
1821                          To be Let
1835                          To be Let
1836 - 1847              D'Alton McCarthy
​1848 - 1849              William Patrick Dowling
1860 - 1861              Daniel Dolan
1860 - 1875              Patrick Dolan
1876 - 1880              William Ryves Allen
1881 - 1886              Walter Stewart Brown
1887 - 1897              Michael Nugent      
1898 - 1904              John Henderson & Sons of Fortfield Nurseries
1905 - 1936              Andrew Dickson of Messrs Alexander Dickson & sons
1937 - 1961              Dr Edward MacLysaght
1961                          For Sale on 6.5 acres, nursery to be carried on at adjoining site                                                                      
                              
STAFF
1863                         Osbornes (living at the gatelodge)
1869                         Maria Mason - Housemaid
                                  Hannah Flynn - Cook
1911 - 1917             Arthur St Aubyn Tehan - Nursery foreman lived at Oakley Park Lodge
1911                         Agnes Walker - Housemaid
                                  Annie Fay - Cook
       
CURRENT
STATUS                    No longer extant. 

CONTRIBUTOR      © June Bow & Karen Poff​
DATE                         March 2018