Photograph courtesy of Declan McGinn
Pembroke House
NAME Pembroke House/Benincasa
AREA LOCATION Blackrock, corner of Mount Merrion Avenue.
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of Williamstown
and it is annotated as Pembroke House on both.
GENERAL Plain Georgian house extended in the 1880's. Double fronted, detached
residence, two storey over garden level with bay windows. It was sold in 1947 on one acre.
YEAR BUILT circa 1760
VALUATION The valuation in 1900 was 100L
Number of
Rooms In the 1901 census it is noted as having 15 rooms.
ARCHITECT Unknown. New wing added by W M Mitchell & Co for J Goodbody.
SOURCES Thom’s directories, contemporaneous newspapers, NAI Census & Wills
Griffith's Valuation and OSI Maps.
OCCUPANTS
1762 Earl of Pembroke or Fitzwilliam
1762 - 1765 General Charles Vallency
1847 - 1852 Charles Meara
1866 - 1868 Major Oliver Fry
1869 Miss Fry
1870 - 1882 Daniel Sullivan
1883 - 1944 Jonathan Goodbody
1944 - 1947 Ellen Pim Goodbody
1947 House for sale
1947 - 1952 Charles E V Archer
1967 - 2020 Benincasa Special School
STAFF
1901 Bessie McIntosh - House servant
Annie Bemish - Nursemaid
Louisa Nixon - Cook
Elsie Kingston Jones - Governess
1901 - 1911 Kathleen Elizabeth (Kate) Coffey - Nurse
1911 Bridget Elizabeth McGowan - Cook
Frances Elizabeth Maxwell - Maid
Mary Ellen Hopkins - Maid
CURRENT
STATUS Extant
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE March 2020
AREA LOCATION Blackrock, corner of Mount Merrion Avenue.
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of Williamstown
and it is annotated as Pembroke House on both.
GENERAL Plain Georgian house extended in the 1880's. Double fronted, detached
residence, two storey over garden level with bay windows. It was sold in 1947 on one acre.
YEAR BUILT circa 1760
VALUATION The valuation in 1900 was 100L
Number of
Rooms In the 1901 census it is noted as having 15 rooms.
ARCHITECT Unknown. New wing added by W M Mitchell & Co for J Goodbody.
SOURCES Thom’s directories, contemporaneous newspapers, NAI Census & Wills
Griffith's Valuation and OSI Maps.
OCCUPANTS
1762 Earl of Pembroke or Fitzwilliam
1762 - 1765 General Charles Vallency
1847 - 1852 Charles Meara
1866 - 1868 Major Oliver Fry
1869 Miss Fry
1870 - 1882 Daniel Sullivan
1883 - 1944 Jonathan Goodbody
1944 - 1947 Ellen Pim Goodbody
1947 House for sale
1947 - 1952 Charles E V Archer
1967 - 2020 Benincasa Special School
STAFF
1901 Bessie McIntosh - House servant
Annie Bemish - Nursemaid
Louisa Nixon - Cook
Elsie Kingston Jones - Governess
1901 - 1911 Kathleen Elizabeth (Kate) Coffey - Nurse
1911 Bridget Elizabeth McGowan - Cook
Frances Elizabeth Maxwell - Maid
Mary Ellen Hopkins - Maid
CURRENT
STATUS Extant
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE March 2020