Photograph courtesy of Carol Fawsitt.
St Petroc
NAME El Dorado/St Petroc
AREA LOCATION STILLORGAN, N11 opposite Belmont Nursing Home, now the site of
Rocwood Estate.
MAP LOCATION OSI map 1898-1913 place it in the townland of Galloping Green
South and it is annotated as St Petroc. It is not marked on the
1838-1845 map.
GENERAL Plain house with gatelodge built circa 1860 for Charles Fox Godwin. The
name was changed to St Petroc circa 1888. In 1939 a CPO was issued to widen the road and
some of the grounds were lost (32 perches for which £1795 with new wall an outhouses to be
built by the council was claimed). It is believed that they were offered just £250 together with
the agreed building work.
YEAR BUILT circa 1860
VALUATION In 1912 the valuation was 66 pounds and in the 1911 census it is
noted as having 14 rooms occupied by family.
ARCHITECT Unknown
SOURCES Thom’s directories, contemporaneous newspapers, OSI Maps, NAI
Census & Wills and the Fawsitt family.
OCCUPANTS
1862 - 1869 Charles Fox Goodwin
1870 Maxwell Tracey
1870 - 1872 William S Tracey
1873 - 1874 Major William Blount (See O'Connor family of Rockfield)
1874 - 1883 Mrs Fannie J Crowe
1884 House to be let
1884 Miss Winter
1885 - 1886 Charles Frederick Green
1887 - 1921 John Mayne Colles
1921 - 1960 Diarmuid Fawsitt
1961 For Sale on 11 acres
1971 - 1975 Pallotine Fathers
1978 James Gallagher, Chairman of Abbey Homesteads & Mona Gallagher
1979 Abbey Homesteads
1979 House demolished
STAFF
1885 Michael Hanlon - Gardener
1894 - 1903 Robert Edwards - Coachman, living on site
1901 Mary Percy - Child's maid
Jemima Blake - Parlourmaid
Agnes Corrigan - Housemaid
Margaret O'Connor - Cook
1911 Kate Dowling - Sewing maid
Margaret Kerr - Housemaid
Julia Leavy - Parlourmaid
Kate Kearney - Cook
1909 - 1911 James Fegan - Coachman, living on site
CURRENT No longer extant
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE April 2018
AREA LOCATION STILLORGAN, N11 opposite Belmont Nursing Home, now the site of
Rocwood Estate.
MAP LOCATION OSI map 1898-1913 place it in the townland of Galloping Green
South and it is annotated as St Petroc. It is not marked on the
1838-1845 map.
GENERAL Plain house with gatelodge built circa 1860 for Charles Fox Godwin. The
name was changed to St Petroc circa 1888. In 1939 a CPO was issued to widen the road and
some of the grounds were lost (32 perches for which £1795 with new wall an outhouses to be
built by the council was claimed). It is believed that they were offered just £250 together with
the agreed building work.
YEAR BUILT circa 1860
VALUATION In 1912 the valuation was 66 pounds and in the 1911 census it is
noted as having 14 rooms occupied by family.
ARCHITECT Unknown
SOURCES Thom’s directories, contemporaneous newspapers, OSI Maps, NAI
Census & Wills and the Fawsitt family.
OCCUPANTS
1862 - 1869 Charles Fox Goodwin
1870 Maxwell Tracey
1870 - 1872 William S Tracey
1873 - 1874 Major William Blount (See O'Connor family of Rockfield)
1874 - 1883 Mrs Fannie J Crowe
1884 House to be let
1884 Miss Winter
1885 - 1886 Charles Frederick Green
1887 - 1921 John Mayne Colles
1921 - 1960 Diarmuid Fawsitt
1961 For Sale on 11 acres
1971 - 1975 Pallotine Fathers
1978 James Gallagher, Chairman of Abbey Homesteads & Mona Gallagher
1979 Abbey Homesteads
1979 House demolished
STAFF
1885 Michael Hanlon - Gardener
1894 - 1903 Robert Edwards - Coachman, living on site
1901 Mary Percy - Child's maid
Jemima Blake - Parlourmaid
Agnes Corrigan - Housemaid
Margaret O'Connor - Cook
1911 Kate Dowling - Sewing maid
Margaret Kerr - Housemaid
Julia Leavy - Parlourmaid
Kate Kearney - Cook
1909 - 1911 James Fegan - Coachman, living on site
CURRENT No longer extant
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE April 2018